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Strange manner in which a boat carrying Syrian migrants was capsized in sea is raising questions whether the Lebanese Navy did it so to prevent in surge in migrant numbers? Picture for representation only Harried Syrians, Lebanese and Palestinians looking for a better future find themselves caught in the crossfire of power and rejection as their illegal attempts to escape their country’s misery through sea routes, invariably lands them on their death bed. A similar incident was reported where 80 Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians, while should have been brought to shore, met in an altercation with the Lebanese navy, only to go down more than five kilometres from the northern port of Tripoli. According to the Lebanese Navy, some 30 people lost their lives. That same night, some seven bodies were recovered (including a child), while 48 survivors were also pulled from the Mediterranean Sea. The bodies had sunk deep down on the bed of the sea and were recovered by a submarine. Ci...

As anticipated, the Houthis have rejected to participate in the proposed GCC peace talks in Riyadh, a confirmed report has said. The talks are to fall between end of March and beginning of April. Mediated by Jordon, this is the latest Gulf Cooperation Council offer to broker comprehensive peace talks between the warring factions. But as anticipated, the Houthis are not interested in ending the war in Yemen, Middle East’s most poor country at the moment. Hundreds of Yemeni politicians, activists, civil society leaders, and even outspoken politicians have been invited to the conference with the single aim of brokering a peaceful resolution to the whole problem. Apparently, Houthis already have preset demands to be met. They have asked the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen should first look at easing alleged restrictions on Sanaa airport and Hodeidah seaport. Till then, they intend to reject holding peace talks in Riyadh.    Meanwhile, the government has positive...

  We still have not figured it out whether the Covid-19 pandemic was actually engineered in a laboratory or not. Yet the desire to kill and control through war motivates the nations of the world Photo courtesy: www. Explica.co There is news doing rounds of a mysterious airbase being erected in a volcanic island in Yemen. At the moment, there is no news as to whose handiwork this is. No country has claimed control over the airbase at the  Mayun Island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. But there was shipping traffic spotted here many years ago. Apparently, it was towards a prior attempt to build a massive runway across the 5.6-kilometre-long island and linked back to the United Arab Emirates. Yemen's humanitarian needs have been more than the world can handle. The country is devastated by continuous war over two decades. But right now, the island is becoming a point of focus. Why? Because it  sits in one of the world's crucial maritime choke-points for both energy shipments and...

The world has seen enough military coups and we don't want just another one in Myanmar The political upheavals, the military coups and the civil wars are not the wars that any nation’s people want to fight- because at the end of the day, they destroy everyone’s life. The story of Myanmar is no different, with military coup have robbed the nation of hope of a democracy. The war that Aung San Suu Kyi fought locked up in prison for decades has comes to knot end.   As her cabinet fell off the favour with the military heavy political party, the hope of democracy has once again become a faint light at the far end of the tunnel. Meanwhile, harried people are fleeing from Myanmar to Thailand. On March 28, official reports state that an estimated 3,000 people had crossed the river dividing the two countries into Thailand's Mae Hong Son province following two days of aerial attacks. It is another exodus of people looking for safe haven-something similar to the situation that has tr...

It is not just war that has robbed people of their right to a dignified life. Brutality against women is another huge factor.  Crime against women is rampant in an Islamic country like Yemen The Civil war in Yemen has made the life miserable for women. The war has drastically cut support services for women.  Many such women have been subjected to slave labour and sexual violence as well. Women have been subjugated and ill treated in Yemen more after the war started. Most of them are married off underage. They are kept as sex slaves and subjected to physical beating as well.  Places that were to act as safe haven for them have not had UN support for a long time due to conflicting needs of a dwindling sick and poor population. If not this, then women are under attack by armed men who exploit and subjugate women.  Yemen has a large displaced population, of which 83percent makes up for women. In Yemen, there is no statutory law that states the age for marriage. The...

When Luan Mayen developed a video game from his ordeal in a South Sudanese refugee camp, he has given the world a lot to learn.... The South Sudanese refugee youth who has brought hope from the dead  Luan Mayen was like any other refugee who wouldn’t see any kind of hope of survival has done something completely magnificent. He is all of 25 years who has developed a video game that in inspired from his struggle while in a refugee camp. He learned coding while in a refugee camp after fleeing South Sudan. The boy is full of hope. Speaking to media agencies he said, “A lot of people don’t understand the journey of a refugee.” Mayen spent his first 22 years in a refugee camp in northern Uganda before moving to the United States. Mayen shared horrors of war, of living in refugee camps, of how young babies were abandoned by parents who couldn’t care for them anymore and were fending for their lives.  Mayen has developed a game which gives gamers a view into li...

In a breakthrough moment, Yemen agreed to let ailing patients be airlifted for immediate medical help  Photo courtesy: WHO official regional report  In the most surprising breakthrough in the Yemeni war , flights carrying patients that need urgent medical attention are being taken to Jordan. The movement has been facilitated by the World Health Organisation (WHO). A WHO representative has said that this is really the first breakthrough in the ongoing effort to create a bridge of confidence in the war torn region.   Atleast 16 passengers have been flown, out of which a majority are women and children who are suffering from conditions like brain cancer and tumors, some needing organ transplants and reconstructive surgeries. Supervised by the United Nations and WHO, the flights from Sanaa will go to Amman and Cairo in Egypt. “It is hoped these flights will enable the opening of regular medical ‘bridge’ flights for sick patients,” said aid organ...