World
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International
3/26/2024 7:18:14 PM
More than a decade ago, the death of 600 migrants and refugees in two Mediterranean shipwrecks near Italian shores shocked the world and prompted the UN migration agency to start recording the number of people who died or went missing as they fled conflict, persecution or poverty to other countries.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/25/2024 11:31:22 AM
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has said that Israel had definitively barred it from making aid deliveries in northern Gaza, where the threat of famine is highest.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/25/2024 11:16:46 AM
The UN refugees agency in Egypt UNHCR revealed in its “Sudan Emergency Update in Egypt” that over 500,000 people have crossed the Egyptian-Sudanese borders from April 2023 to March 2024.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/21/2024 8:44:09 PM
US lawmakers moved Thursday to prohibit any further funding for the UN Palestinian refugee agency, which Israel has attempted to link the agency to Hamas without providing evidence, and despite refutations of such allegations as baseless.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/21/2024 5:24:35 PM
An Israeli air strike and gunfire have killed four Palestinians at the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent said Thursday in an updated toll.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/20/2024 9:18:01 PM
Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday it will donate $40 million to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, which has faced massive funding cuts and calls for its abolition spearheaded by Israel.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/20/2024 10:33:47 AM
Mourners held funeral prayers Wednesday morning outside a hospital in central Gaza for 28 people killed in three separate Israeli airstrikes on urban refugee camps.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/19/2024 9:43:09 PM
The United States said Tuesday that Israel should let the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA into Gaza, after he was denied entry.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Features
3/19/2024 4:53:54 PM
Franco-Syrian historian Farouk Mardam-Bey talks about food as representing the history and identity of the Levant to Dina Ezzat
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/18/2024 6:36:00 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry has blamed Israeli authorities for refusing to allow the entry of Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, to Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on Monday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/17/2024 11:45:00 PM
As the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza enters its 162nd day, more than 30 Palestinians, mostly from the same family, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp as the family gathered for suhoor. Meanwhile, truce talks will resume in Doha.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/13/2024 6:39:00 PM
More children have been reported killed in the war raging in Gaza than in four years of conflict around the world, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/6/2024 7:36:10 PM
Canada will restore funding to the United Nations Relief Agency for Palestinians (UNRWA), a government official tells The Associated Press, weeks after the agency lost hundreds of millions of dollars in support following Israeli allegations against some of its staffers in Gaza.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/5/2024 11:21:23 AM
Gaza Palestinians detained by Israeli forces are coming back "completely traumatized" upon release and reporting abuses while in captivity, the head of the UN's Palestinian refugee agency said Monday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/4/2024 11:07:12 PM
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees is set to defend his organization's work Monday at the General Assembly, after crippling backlash over accusations some employees were involved in Oct.7 offensive on Israel.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/1/2024 4:09:48 PM
Egypt’s Al-Azhar condemned on Thursday in the strongest terms the latest massacre committed by the Israeli army against Palestinian refugees in North Gaza where more than 112 Palestinians were killed while attempting to get some food aid.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/29/2024 1:40:09 PM
Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Jan Egeland described the destruction of Gaza and the despair of its people following a visit to the war-torn Palestinian strip.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
2/29/2024 11:46:23 AM
A new truck arrives in the South Sudanese town of Renk, packed with dozens of elderly men, women and children, their exhausted faces betraying the strain of their traumatic journey out of war-ravaged Sudan.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/27/2024 12:44:31 PM
Israeli troops killed three Palestinians in an overnight raid in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said Tuesday.
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Business
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Economy
2/25/2024 9:43:36 PM
There is no connection between increasing the value of Egypt’s upcoming loan from the International Monetary Fund and the possibility of receiving refugees from Gaza in case of an Israeli attack on the city of Rafah, Jihad Azour, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the IMF said on Sunday.
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