U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen has introduced legislation to suspend American arms sales to the United Arab Emirates unless the UAE is certified not to be arming Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to a draft announcement.
Van Hollen filed a joint Senate resolution, with Representative Sara Jacobs submitting a counterpart in the House. While unlikely to gain broad congressional backing, the measure highlights Sudan’s worsening humanitarian crisis.
Samih Sawiris, the Egyptian billionaire and CEO of Orascom, a Cairo-based infrastructure and construction giant, is pursuing a $400 million
Egypt’s Foreign Minister has criticized Israel’s seizure of Syrian territory on the Israeli border after the fall of
This last year was one of the most tumultuous for the Sahel region; in January the newly composed Alliance of
Doctors Without Borders, known also as MSF, has warned of a ‘rapidly escalating’ outbreak of cholera; a total of 737
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