Ruth Michaelson
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Libya floods: warlord using disaster response to exert control, say observers
Khalifa Haftar and Libyan National Army militia said to be overseeing humanitarian relief arriving in city of Derna → Read More
Leading critic of Egyptian state jailed for six months
Free speech advocate Hisham Kassem sentenced for defaming former minister Kamal Abu Eita → Read More
‘We need to start again’: Morocco’s earthquake puts girls’ education at risk
Charity that runs boarding houses to help girls in remote Atlas mountains get to school scrambles to find out what facilities remain → Read More
Bahraini human rights defender denied travel to kingdom to visit jailed father
Maryam al-Khawaja fears her father, the political prisoner Abdulhadi al-Khawajar, will die soon after being denied medical treatment → Read More
Morocco earthquake: Macron tries to soothe tensions after frosty response to offer of aid
French president addresses Moroccans directly amid political rift between Rabat and Paris → Read More
Morocco earthquake: hope fades of finding survivors in rubble
Complicated rescue effort continues as questions remain about king and government’s response → Read More
Morocco earthquake: death toll passes 2,800 as foreign aid teams fly in
Authorities accept help from some countries but other offers not yet taken up as search for survivors runs out of time → Read More
Morocco earthquake: mourning begins as rescue continues with death toll over 2,000
Villagers bury their dead while Red Cross warns recovery may take years and other countries offer aid → Read More
Morocco earthquake: at least 2,000 dead and thousands more injured
Old city in Marrakech among areas hit in quake measuring at least 6.8 that centred on the High Atlas mountains → Read More
‘The streets were jammed’: fear and confusion after Morocco earthquake
Witnesses describe how panic spread across the country when powerful earthquake struck → Read More
The Loathe Boat: the honking cruise ships ‘ruining’ Istanbul’s port
Two years after Galataport opened to fanfare as a tourism success story, not everyone is happy about how it has transformed the Turkish coastline → Read More
Lebanon LGBTQ+ activists say attacks are distraction from country’s problems
Community reports shift from uneasy tolerance to being scapegoated for socioeconomic crisis → Read More
Syrian protests enter second week with calls for Assad to go
Demonstrations have grown steadily throughout the south, centring around the province of Suwayda → Read More
At least 500 Bahraini prisoners on hunger strike over conditions
Detainees at Jau prison that mainly houses prisoners of conscience began refusing food on 7 August → Read More
Family of academic detained in Egypt accuse US of breaking pledge to help
Salah Soltan, a US green card holder and critic of Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi, claims he faces death in Cairo jail and urges Biden to act → Read More
‘The illegality is enormous’: Turkey’s quake cleanup may kill even more
Six months on, mountains of rubble, asbestos and heavy metals blight the landscape, threatening the health of communities already suffering from devastating loss → Read More
Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s $6bn spend on ‘sportswashing’
Exclusive: Billions deployed since early 2021 in a move critics say is an attempt to distract from human rights record → Read More
Russian veto on aid lifeline to Syria could bring ‘catastrophe’ for millions
Fears rise that UN could be forced into compromise with Damascus to keep vital corridor open from Turkey to rebel-held Idlib → Read More
Britons trapped in Sudan say relatives were not allowed on flights
Foreign Office accused of creating ‘confusion’ during evacuation, with some struggling to get visas or prove citizenship → Read More
Khartoum hospitals being hit as Sudan fighting intensifies
Several people killed outside East Nile hospital as civilian groups step in to help people caught in conflict → Read More