Yemen: talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran offer hopes for an end to bitter seven-year civil war: Recent statements from Iran and Saudi Arabia have provided hope that a pathway might be emerging to an end to the bitter seven-year civil war in Yemen which has killed an estimated quarter of a million people and …
Allies cut deals with al Qaeda in Yemen to serve larger fight: Former al Qaeda commander Harith al-Ezzi examines damage in Taiz in February. Many Al Qaeda members are fighting rebels. : Weird News Let Freedom Ring? Sure, But Not For This Liberty Bell: Bell, whose antics graced these pages in late-March, was arrested Thursday …
South Africa in the news: UPDATE 1-Risk of mass starvation rapidly rising in Africa, Yemen, U.N. warns: Some 20 million people live in hard-hit areas where harvests have failed and malnutrition rates are increasing, particularly among young children, it said. In South Sudan alone — where the United Nations declared famine in some areas in …