Port Sudan

Morocco’s Water Minister Details Flood Management Strategy as Dam Reserves Reach nearly 70 Percent Capacity

Water and Infrastructure Minister Nizar Baraka provided comprehensive flood management details Wednesday following weeks of intense precipitation that delivered 12.17 billion cubic meters of water inflows since September—triple the previous year’s volume. National dam filling rates reached 69.4%, representing approximately two years of drinking water supply, while meteorological services forecast additional precipitation in the Loukkos […]

Iran’s Pyrrhic Victory

The one persistent feature of Iranian foreign policy since the toppling of the Shah in 1979 was its rather grandiose optimism about its own ascendance to a hegemonic role in the Middle East. The ayatollah’s Islamic Republic never considered the revolution it had kidnapped to turn inward. Instead, the leaders of the Islamic Republic of […]

Algeria: Human rights deteriorate, crackdown on journalists continues

A court in Algeria Monday ordered detention of a journalist for creating an online account allegedly spreading information suspected to trigger hatred and segregation in the society.   A tribunal in Tamanrasset, southern Algeria, threw Rabah Karèche, the correspondent of francophone daily “Liberté” in prison after the journalist was interrogated by security forces over an […]