Located in the Indian Ocean about 340 km southeast of Yemen, the Socotra Island archipelago holds a very strategic location between Somalia and Yemen, being the largest of several islands extending east-ward from the Horn of Africa, while overlooking the critical route of trade moving into Bab el Mandab Strait. Socotra is in fact an...
Last month, the special US envoy to the Horn of Africa Jeffery Feltman commenced on an African Tour that includes Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan. The tour comes as an effort by the Biden Administration to address the complex crises in the Horn of Africa and on top of the list comes The Grand Ethiopian...
World Matters starts with the sobering message that, despite growing interest in sustainability, things are still going from bad to worse. This is caused by population growth, a consumption-driven economy, and our inability to accept that there is a single dominant global currency which is also the reserve currency. This article will grab any travelers’,...
Whether you have been an avid follower of the Palestinian struggle throughout the years, or just a mere observer to the recent developments, it is with no doubt that you now notice a disruption to the status quo of the Palestinian cause, marking the start of a new chapter for Palestine. For long brutal years,...
The threat to evict Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah district in East Jerusalem had become a rallying cry for Palestinians and an emblem of the very unbalanced conflict between Israel and Palestine. This threat is part of a wider effort to remove Palestinians from East Jerusalem to reinforce the Jewish control of East Jerusalem. The...
A Reality Check for the COVAX Initiative Out of a communicated conviction that vaccination in a time of global pandemic is a universal human right, some 192 countries signed up last year for COVAX. COVAX is an international effort set up last year to try to ensure a largely equitable access to vaccines among rich and...
It’s in the beginning of March when news about US and China’s contention started to pop-up as The Biden Administration is putting efforts to limit China’s access to technology by revealing a plan to rally an alliance of nations to fight for an edge in various technological areas. However, after the sanctions imposed by the...
Background and Context In 2019, seven states (Egypt, Israel, Greece, Cyprus, Italy and Jordan and Palestine) signed a charter for an Egypt-based energy forum, giving formal status to a group that seeks to promote natural gas exports from the eastern Mediterranean and that Israel hopes will strengthen ties with Arab neighbors. The forum was the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) established as an intergovernmental...
Recently, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) announced the enactment of a new unified executive authority in Libya, tasked with preparing the country for national elections, scheduled for December 24th, 2021. Of course, this is a major success, for the newly formed Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF). This round of dialogue in Geneva...
This week, big news came out about a breakthrough in the negotiations to resolve the Gulf dispute that has raged for more than three years, signaling a shift in a crisis that has pitted valuable U.S. allies against each other. Among those allies are the following key regional players, Qatar that hosts the region’s largest...
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