How to avert Somalia’s impending famine and restore stability
DR. ABDEL AZIZ ALUWAISHEG August 29, 2022 Short Url Al-Qaeda, through its Al-Shabab affiliate, has had a strong presence in Somalia for some time, but this month’s attack on the […]
The century of climate migration: why we need to plan for the great upheaval
Photograph: Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images The long read People driven from their homes by climate disaster need protection. And ageing nations need them by Gaia Vince Thu 18 Aug 2022 06.00 BST […]
What increasingly hot and dusty Middle East summers mean for public health, productivity and energy demand
SPECIAL Men stand underneath a roadside shower along Sinak street in Baghdad to cool off due to extremely high temperature rises amid a heatwave. (AFP) Short Url Updated 12 sec […]
France faces full brunt of climate change with heat waves, wildfires, drought
Effects of this combination have drastically impacted people and agriculture, food production Shweta Desai |15.08.2022 PARIS France is reeling under the effects of record heat from abnormally hot […]
Confronting the growing drought risk
Confronting the growing drought risk Jul 23,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Ibrahim Thiaw BONN — Drought may be an ancient scourge, but it is getting worse. No region or country […]
There is a danger of the Arab region becoming an unlivable zone
HAFED AL-GHWELL April 16, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/4d7qk The prospect of a warming planet rapidly transforming parts of the Arab world into uninhabitable zones has long been downplayed, dismissed and […]
Humanitarian Catastrophe in Somalia, With the World’s Attention on Ukraine, Suffering Is Rising Elsewhere
Ukraine isn’t the only place where children are dying because of the Russian invasion. With all attention on the war there, aid money is drying up in other regions – […]
Deepening food crisis compounds Afghanistan’s problems
Internally displaced Afghan families, who fled from Kunduz and Takhar province due to battles between Taliban and Afghan security forces, collect food in Kabul. (AFP/File Photo) Short Url https://arab.news/65wqq Combined […]
Last stand in Yemen as battle for oil-rich province rages
By AFP – Sep 26,2020 – JORDAN TIMES Eight-year-old displaced Yemeni girl, Samar Ali Ahmed, weighing nine-and-a-half kilogrammes and suffering from acute malnutrition, is photographed in Hajjah Governorate, in northern […]
The myth of climate wars?
Jun 04,2019 – JORDAN TIMES By Alaa Murabit and Luca Bücken NEW YORK — In the years leading up to Syria’s civil war, the country endured three consecutive record-breaking droughts. […]
Organization of Islamic Cooperation calls to help drought-hit Afghanistan
Arab News December 31, 2018 The resolution reiterated the organization’s commitment to providing all forms of support to mitigate the sufferings of the Afghan people JEDDAH: The Organization […]
Global warming: Drought hits Iraq’s agriculture
Cultivated areas halve in Iraq as drought tightens grip By AFP – Aug 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES An Iraqi man uses a shovel on a dry field in an […]
War and peace, and water
Jun 28,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – LAURA TUCK India is currently facing its worst water crisis in years, with an estimated 330 million people — one-quarter of its population — affected by severe drought. Ethiopia is also dealing with its worst drought in decades, which has already contributed to the failure […]
Southern Africa’s drought leaves millions hungry
Source: Al Jazeera About 14 million people in Southern Africa are facing hunger because of last year’s poor harvest, caused by the El Nino weather pattern, the World Food Programme […]