Algeria Hirak

ISIS sets price for child slave, UN official confirms

UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Bangura, said Tuesday she saw a ‘price list’ for child slaves in the hands of ISIS fighters in Syria and Iraq. Claims that ISIS fighters have been circulating a price list of child slaves have been confirmed as genuine by Zainab Bangura, who visited […]

Fresh financing deal: Egypt gets $1.5 billion from ITFC to finance petroleum & basic commodities imports

The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) will provide Egypt with $1.5 billion, a new financing agreement earmarked for imports of petroleum and basic commodities. Hani Sonbol, ITFC CEO announced the agreement to Bloomberg Asharq adding that the amount includes $800 million for petroleum imports and $700 million for basic commodities. The new deal is […]

Gulf Crisis: Trump Sides with KSA against Qatar

The US President Tuesday shocked his own administration after he took the Saudi side in the crisis involving Qatar and several of its neighbors. Donald Trump boasted via several tweets that the speech he delivered two weeks ago in Riyadh “was already paying off” adding that Qatar has been singled out as terrorism supporter. “So […]