Okay, every topic that has even remotely to do with the middle east keeps getting more general news put into it which removes focus from the original topic.
As such, I'm creating this thread as a general middle east and north africa topic. That means anything to do with the Arab Spring, Israel or Palestine should be kept to those threads and anything to do with more generic news (for example, new Saudi regulations on the number of foreign workers or the Lebanese elections next year, etc.) should be posted here.
I hope the mods will find this a clear enough statement of intent to open the thread.
Mod edit: The Israel and Palestine thread
has been locked since October 2023. Discussion about Palestine and/or Israel remains off-topic for this thread.
Edited by Mrph1 on May 11th 2024 at 2:19:57 PM
he/him
Pinned post updated & rephrased to acknowledge that Israel and Palestine are off-topic and shouldn't be covered in the thread.
The previous version was a little ambiguous about this, as it suggested that they were individually on-topic, but "Israel and Palestine" as a political situation wasn't.
I'm not going to thump previous posts, but please stay off this topic in future.
Edited by Mrph1 on May 11th 2024 at 4:11:04 PM
Found an interesting article from last year when a supposed upload from the Instagram account (supposedly) used by Princess Latifa says that she's "fine".
This is still suspicious and it came after the Free Latifa campaign group closed up shop.
Cringe but free
CNN: People eating ‘grass and peanut shells’ in Darfur, UN says, as hunger crisis engulfs war-ravaged Sudan. More than 8.7 million people, including 4.6 million children, have been displaced by the war in Sudan and 24.8 million need assistance, according to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Human Rights Watch has also documented thousands of killings perpetrated by the RSF and its Arab client militias in Darfur from April to November last year, including a single attack that killed over 1,000 ethnic Massalit victims in the town of El Geneina.
Palestine's given more rights in the UN. They can't formally vote.
Some criticism on the vote is based on the UN requirements for membership, given that Hamas is the de facto government.
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/chapter-2
Edited by Ominae on May 11th 2024 at 8:10:35 AM