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Diana Estefanía Rubio

El Niño: the climate phenomenon in the Pacific disrupting the world

The Panama Canal has scaled back its daily ship transits from 36 to 32 as of 15 September, as declining rainfall threatens its water supply. At the same time, the Atlantic hurricane season has…

Al Majalla - London 15 September 2026
Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed delivers his remarks during the official inauguration ceremony of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Guba, on September 9, 2025. Luis TATO / AFP

Cheers and jeers: Ethiopia inaugurates controversial dam

Addis Ababa has finally inaugurated the long-awaited and much-touted GERD—Africa's biggest dam—leaving Egypt and Sudan worried about the impact on their water supply downstream

Sharif Mohammad 13 September 2025
Sara Padovan

It’s time to build a regional climate fund

As global climate finance falters and US support disappears, the MENA region faces a widening funding gap. Now is the time to create a regional climate finance mechanism.

Léa Eid 27 May 2025
A demonstrator approaches a boat stuck in the dried-up bank of a canal, during a rally at the Umm El Wadaa marsh, southeast of the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on August 16, 2022, to demand solutions for water scarcity and drought. AFP

Water woes multiply in Iraq and the greater region

Worsening water scarcity threatens much of the Arab world as Iraq struggles to plan for the future

Shelly Kittleson 18 July 2023
After severe drought, rainfall gives hope that growth prospects in the country can bounce back and become stronger than ever. Axel Rangel Garcia

Moroccan economy sees rebound after difficult year

After severe drought, rainfall gives hope that growth prospects in the country can bounce back and become stronger than ever

Mohamed Sharki 04 February 2023
FILE - A child is weighed at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia, on Sept. 19, 2022. In many Middle Eastern and African nations, climatic shocks killed hundreds and displaced thousands every year, causing worsening food shortages. With limited resources, they also are among the world’s poorest and most vulnerable to climate change impacts. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

In War-Torn States Hurt By Climate, Scant Hope For New Funds

In conflict-ravaged nations like Yemen and Somalia, devastating floods and droughts kill hundreds of people and uproot tens of thousands from their homes. These countries and many others in the…

AP 22 November 2022
FILE - People walk close to the border at Yesa's reservoir affected by drought, on a sunny summer day in Yesa, around 55 kilometers (34,17 miles), from Pamplona, northern Spain, Sept. 14, 2022. Widespread drought that dried up large parts of Europe, the United States and China this past summer was made 20 times more likely by climate change, according to a new study. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Climate Change Made Summer Drought 20 Times More Likely

Drought that stretched across three continents this summer — drying out large parts of Europe, the United States, and China — was made 20 times more likely by climate change, according to a new study…

AP 05 October 2022
Children affected by the worsening drought due to failed rain seasons, sit outside their makeshift shelter at Sopel village in Turkana, Kenya September 27, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Northern Kenya Faces Hunger Crisis as Drought Wipes out Livestock

In a dry river bed in Kenya's arid northwest, pastoralists dig ever-deeper pits in an anxious search for water, as the region suffers its worst drought in 40 years, which has wiped out livestock and…

29 September 2022
View of a previously submerged village revealed by low water level in Cabril dam reservoir in Pedrogao Grande, Portugal, July 13, 2022. REUTERS/Rodrigo Antunes/File Photo

Drought Prompts Portugal To Restrict Water Use At More Hydropower Dams

Hit by drought, Portugal on Tuesday expanded a previous order to temporarily restrict water use for electricity production and irrigation to more of its hydropower dams. Heat and little rain has…

27 September 2022
Head of a drilling crew Gao Pucha watches as his drill hits water as the region experiences a drought outside Jiujiang city, Jiangxi province, China, August 27, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Chinese Drillers Work 15-Hour Days Building Wells in Drought-Hit Jiangxi

Teams of drillers are working long hours to build wells to fight a devastating drought sweeping parts of China, farmers in Jiujiang city in the country's central Jiangxi province told Reuters on…

27 August 2022
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The Palestinian flag in France: from student activism to social unrest 

23, Oct 2026

Once a symbol of solidarity with the Palestinian cause, it is now being used by different groups to advance their own grievances and agendas

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A general view of the Cairo Citadel overlooking parts of Taiz, Yemen, on 24 May 2022. Reuters
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The ancient city is the latest target of a Houthi battle for territory, identity, and the country's future

Anwar Al-Ansi
A worker counts money at a petrol station in Cairo on 26 July 2024, as Egypt’s government announced yesterday a new increase in fuel prices. AHMED HASAN / AFP
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How the Egyptian economy weathered regional turmoil

22, Oct 2026

Saved from default in 2024, Egypt's macroeconomic policies and central bank flexibility have helped steady the ship amid the fallout of Israel's war on Gaza and the US war on Iran

Sharif Mohammad
A supporter wears a T-shirt of opposition presidential candidate Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro during a rally to launch his runoff campaign in Goiania, Brazil, on 6 October 2026. AP Photo/Eraldo Peres
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18, Oct 2026

Lula's challenger won 47% of the vote in first-round polls. Will he win the run-off, too?

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