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29 Oct 2018 - NPWJ News Digest on Middle East and North Africa Democracy
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Mosul residents: 'We were the masters of the world'
Aljazeera , 29 Oct 2018
Amid the rubble and devastation of the old city in west Mosul, it was difficult to imagine that Bulgaria would be the one thing local people would want to talk about the most.
In the deserted Nineveh Street in al-Sa'aa (clock) neighbourhood, I met Adel Hassan, who had recently returned to his damaged home after having run out of money to pay rent for an apartment in the relatively less devastated east Mosul. He said he was the only one in his area to have come back.
Trump’s Iran sanctions resolve faces test from oil-thirsty China, India
Reuters, 29 Oct 2018
Shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump announced in May he would reimpose sanctions on Iran, the State Department began telling countries around the world the clock was ticking for them to cut oil purchases from the Islamic Republic to zero.
The strategy is meant to cripple Iran’s oil-dependent economy and force Tehran to quash not only its nuclear ambitions, but this time, its ballistic missile program and its influence in Syria.
As Rich Nations Close the Door on Refugees, Uganda Welcomes Them
The New York Times, 28 Oct 2018
President Trump is vowing to send the military to stop migrants trudging from Central America. Europe’s leaders are paying African nations to block migrants from crossing the Mediterranean — and detaining the ones who make it in filthy, overcrowded camps.
But Solomon Osakan has a very different approach in this era of rising xenophobia. From his uncluttered desk in northwest Uganda, he manages one of the largest concentrations of refugees anywhere in the world: more than 400,000 people scattered across his rural district.
Dozens Dead in Eastern Syria After Clashes with Islamic State
The New York Times, 27 Oct 2018
Islamic State militants killed at least 40 Syrian fighters backed by the United States, captured several alive and regained areas they lost earlier this month in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border in some of the most intense fighting in weeks, a war monitor and an agency linked to the extremist group reported on Saturday.
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How the EU's principled pragmatism sows strife in the Middle East
Aljazeera , 26 Oct 2018
When Jamal Khashoggi disappeared after entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2, credible reports began almost immediately to emerge that he was murdered inside. Silence was the initial EU response to the crime, carried out within the borders of a NATO ally, on a ground reserved for diplomatic and consular services, in violation of the 1963 Vienna Convention. It took a full two weeks before the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini emerged to say that the EU "expects" Saudi authorities to conduct a "full investigation". She added that the EU "expects and hopes" that the answer will be found with full transparency and clarity.