Counting the cost: The threats to food and water in North Africa
In North Africa, the consequences of a warming planet are no longer a distant threat. They have morphed into a relentless burden on fragile economies and fragile governance systems.
A world of abundance? Measuring AI’s economic impact
Is artificial intelligence transforming the economy in any real sense, or is the promise of rapid growth mere hype? US stock markets certainly favor the former view: Shares of AI and tech...
Rohingya crisis has become a regional powder keg
The world’s most persecuted minority is on the move again. Thousands of Rohingya refugees have begun taking to the seas in rickety boats, desperate to escape hunger, insecurity, and hopelessness in the...
When Arta embraced the dream of Somali reconciliation
Amid its serene hills and the warmth of its people, the Djiboutian city of Arta inscribed one of the brightest chapters of reconciliation in modern African history. In the year 2000, it...
Sudan’s deadly conflict and the shape of wars to come
The war in Sudan is not an anomaly; it is a prototype. A conflict that has directly killed at least 150,000 people, displaced over 11 million, and pushed half the population into...
Europe must keep focus on Western Balkans
A high-level meeting focusing on the Balkans took place in London on Wednesday. Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosted the leaders of the six Western Balkan nations — Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo,...
Why a Lebanon-Israel deal is unlikely
After last week’s Sharm El-Sheikh summit on the Gaza ceasefire deal, US Ambassador to Turkiye and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack, who is also handling Lebanon, said that the only pieces...
Stepping up our collective action on gender equality
How can we unite, act and resist together in order to defend gender equality and the rights of women and girls? This is the guiding question of the Fourth Ministerial Conference on...
What comes after the Sharm El-Sheikh summit?
It is clear that last week’s Sharm El-Sheikh summit has joined the long list of contentious issues that predictably stir controversy, whether within our Middle Eastern region or in the broader regional...
Elections may make or break Palestinian national movement
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas last month pledged a series of political reforms, including holding general presidential and parliamentary elections one year after the Gaza ceasefire agreement came into effect. These commitments were...