Tag: Al Jazeera

(Afghanistan) Power vacuum and Taliban’s role

Al Jazeera writes: US-led foreign troops are leaving Afghanistan after 20 years of war, and the Taliban is quickly filling the power vacuum. Fighters have made...

(Ethiopia) PM Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party won elections

Al Jazeera writes: Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party has been declared the winner of last month’s national election in a landslide, assuring a second five-year term...

(South Africa) Violence in South Africa

Al Jazeera writes: South African police have arrested 28 people and one of the country’s biggest highways remained closed over violent protests against the imprisonment...

(Palestine) The Palestinian unity

Mouin Rabbani writes for Al Jazeera: As the ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian organisations in the Gaza Strip entered into force in the early...

USA/China – US set to add more Chinese companies to blacklist over Xinjiang (Al Jazeera)

The Biden administration is set to add more than 10 Chinese companies to its economic blacklist as early as Friday for alleged human rights...

Venezuela – Venezuelan police move in on gang-run Caracas neighbourhoods (Al Jazeera)

Venezuelan security forces have entered certain areas in the capital, Caracas, seeking to end days of deadly fighting with armed gangs. No official death toll...

Chile – Son of Chile Indigenous leader killed in restive province (Al Jazeera)

The son of a leader of Chile’s Mapuche people has been shot dead by police in the restive Araucania province, local media reported, in...

Haiti – Haiti asks UN, US to send troops after president’s assassination (Al Jazeera)

Haiti’s interim government says it has requested that the United Nations and the United States send troops to help secure key infrastructure after the...

Afghanistan – Taliban claims to control most of Afghanistan after rapid gains (Al Jazeera)

The Taliban said on Friday it has seized control of 85 percent of territory in Afghanistan, a declaration government officials dismissed as part of...

Afghanistan/Turkey/USA – Will Turkey take over security at Afghanistan’s main airport? (Sinem Koseoglu, Al Jazeera)

As American military and intelligence officers quietly slip out of Afghanistan, the security environment in the country has increasingly become more fragile, including for...

Kyrgyzstan – Kyrgyzstan moves to nationalise gold mine run by Canadian company ( Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska, Al Jazeera)

In the early 1990s, it was hoped that a large gold mine in eastern Kyrgyzstan, near the Chinese border, would lift the newly independent...

Rwanda/Mozambique – Rwanda deploys 1,000 soldiers to Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado (Al Jazeera)

Rwanda has started deploying 1,000-strong forces to Mozambique to help it combat worsening violence in the gas-rich northern Cabo Delgado province. The announcement came on...

South Sudan – Can there be a peaceful future for South Sudan? (Al Jazeera)

When South Sudan became independent 10 years ago, President Salva Kiir promised a new beginning of tolerance, love and unity. The excitement was soon replaced...

France/Sahel Region – France to pull more than 2,000 troops from Africa’s Sahel region (Al Jazeera)

France will soon begin reshaping its military presence in the Sahel region of West Africa and will ultimately halve it, President Emmanuel Macron has...

Lebanon – Lebanon MPs stall lifting immunity in port blast probe (Al Jazeera)

Lebanese legislators on Friday held up an investigation into the Beirut port blast, less than a month before its first anniversary, demanding more proof before...

Israel/West Bank – Israeli forces open fire on Palestinians; hundreds wounded (Al Jazeera)

Israeli forces opened fire on hundreds of Palestinian demonstrators who rallied against an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank on Friday, with more...