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Maggie Michael

1 year

Joining @Reuters as an investigative journalist in Mideast and Africa. Grateful to @ICIJorg and @michaelwhudson for all the support the past two years. Thrilled to be back to the newsroom ✉️maggie.michael @thomsonreuters .com

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4 years

People in #Yemen ‘s Aden are dying in droves and in Sanaa, Houthis are waging a campaign to aggressively suppress any information about the scale of the outbreak.

Coronavirus spreads in Yemen with health system in shambles

CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds of people in Aden, southern Yemen’s main city, have died in the past week with symptoms of what appears to be the coronavirus, local health officials said in interviews with The...

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More than 50 babies died of starvation and dehydration in Mygoma orphanage since the war started. “They needed to be fed every three hours. There was no one there." #KeepEyesOnSudan

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Monir al-Sharqi was burned so severely by acid. A family member said he was held and tortured by Houthis in Taiz for a year. Monir can't tell as he lost his memory. #Yemen

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Ambulances came under fire as they rushed to the site of the attack in Beir al-Abd mosque northern #Sinai ; 85 people killed #Egypt

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@AlAhram

6 years

الأنصارى : تم استهداف سيارات الاسعاف خلال عملية نقل المصابين جراء هجوم شمال سيناء

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Even in safe zones in Khartoum, teachers, lawyers and pharmacists spent hours to fill their plates with little beans and lentils from soup kitchens. Fatma, who sold her clothes to get cash, says she “cried hard,” first time she stood in line for food. #Sudan

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6 years

A list of local relief groups, founded by journalists, activists, and physicians in Yemen. For readers who asked about how to donate:

Yemen aid

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Devastating piece by the great @mokhbersahafi on how mothers in Yemen are starving themselves to keep their children from starving instead. Sometimes it is not enough.

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4 years

تعتيم الحوثيون علي انتشار وباء الكورونا في اليمن Read:

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6 years

Drawings obtained by @AP from inside Yemeni prisons give a glimpse into a world of sexual torture by top U.S. ally in Yemen, the Emirates. #Yemen

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7 months

How Israel’s Spies Failed—and Why Escalation Could Be Catastrophic - The culture of intelligence agencies paved the way for disaster. Regional war could revive the nuclear specter that haunted the world in 1973.

How Israel’s Spies Failed—and Why Escalation Could Be Catastrophic

The culture of intelligence agencies paved the way for disaster. Regional war could revive the nuclear specter that haunted the world in 1973.

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Reuters' latest investigation on Sudan shows spreading cases of starvation and hunger where people eat dirt, tree leaves, and cats. “We will likely see a famine that we haven’t seen in decades," @anette_hoffmann #KeepEyesOnSudan

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غدا تحقيق مطول للاتحاد الدولي للصحفيين الاستقصائيين يحكي قصه دوله عربية تحولت الي مغسله عملاقه للاموال القذره. التحقيق استغرق سته شهور ويستند الي مئات من الوثائق المسربة ضمن سلسله #اوراق_باندورا

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Tomorrow @ICIJorg will release a new investigation focusing an Arab country that became a giant washing machine for the world's dirty money. #PandoraPapers

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Earlier this year, we met Hager, a tenderhearted and a strong mother who was forced to flee the war-torn Hodieda. Despite her extreme poverty, she baked bread for us and offered a cup of tea, a typical meal for her and her kids.

‘I don’t eat so they can’

Meet Hagar Yahia, a Yemeni woman working to keep her family alive.

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5 years

Yahia al-Houthi, the brother of Houthi leader, admits torture in an exclusive video obtained by the AP. Yahia led a committee that visited the detention centers. Another Houthi figure said: "We saw what made our eyes flow with tears of blood." #Yemen

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4 years

Amid a tug of war between Houthis and UN agencies, AP learnt that UN has been paying salaries to Houthi officials while at least 370 million dollars cash transfers went to bank accounts of Houthi-controlled gov, agencies, a third wasn't audited. #Yemen

Yemen's Houthi rebels impeding UN aid flow, demand a cut

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have blocked half of the United Nations’ aid delivery programs in the war-torn country — a strong-arm tactic to force the agency to give them greater control over the massive...

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3 years

Taiz, once the "culture center" of Yemen became the city of snipers where hundreds of children were killed or injured by Houthis militias. One of the many underreported horrors of the #Yemen war.

Inside a dangerously divided 'city of snipers'

The BBC has gained exclusive access to Taiz, home to a long-running battle in Yemen's civil war.

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8 months

Amid heavy bombardment by RSF and Janjaweed on densely populated areas in El Geneina, Tarek Bahreldin, an older brother of the sultan of the Masalit refused to leave his house. He who was shot dead and RSF positioned snipers to prevent people from burying him #Sudan

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2 years

شيوخ الامارات وتدفقات الاموال السرية في أوراق باندورا Read:

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1 year

When RSF stormed Mar Girgis church in Omdurman, they were searching for women, gold, and dollars. They prayed bullets at a priest, nuns, and sextons, wounding five of them while shouting "You are Egyptians, sons of dogs." #Sudan

Witnesses recount gunmen's raid on church in Sudan's capital

Over four terrifying hours last weekend, masked gunmen affiliated to one of Sudan's warring factions raided one of Khartoum's oldest churches, opening fire at church officials as they searched for...

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@mokhbersahafi

5 years

Houthis systematically detain and torture journalists. Mohammed al-Washie, Ibrahim al-Jahdabi, and Mahmoud al-Ghabri from Dhamar are among many. One burned with cigarettes and hot melted plastic was dripped on his body and a second left with a broken leg. #Yemen @NMofty

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Why? because Houthis obstructed the work of aid agencies, causing delays in necessary data collection for needs assessment, UN inability to hold a conference in Feb. to ask donors for funds + donors' mistrust, aid diversion, corruption. #Yemen

UN forced to cut aid to Yemen, even as virus increases need

CAIRO (AP) — Aid organizations are making an urgent plea for funding to shore up their operations in war-torn Yemen, saying they have already been forced to stop some of their work even as the...

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WFP gave Houthis 10 days to take action against looting else it will suspend half of its aid distributed by the Houthi‘s Ministry of Education. WFP chief sent a letter saying 40 % of beneficiaries in Sanaa and only a third of Saada, actually get aid #Yemen

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7 years

"We will love them more," a priest shouted inside #Egypt where 25 killed in an explosion seen as an attempt to cause a sectarian rift

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Mansour al-Adani, a teacher in Sanaa, was arrested by Houthis in August 2015 after a mix-up with a suspect with a similar name. “They said it’s a mistake and they will release me,” al-Adani said. Instead, he was held for two years. His mother had a stroke and died. #Yemen

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4 years

"The rebels are treating the vessel as a deterrent like having a nuclear weapon.” #Yemen

Seawater seeping into decaying oil tanker off Yemen coast

CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations said an abandoned oil tanker moored off the coast of Yemen loaded with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil is at risk of rupture or exploding, causing massive...

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4 years

اليمن: ناقلة النفط المتهالكة ومخاطر بيئية جسيمة Read:

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3 years

تكشف الوثائق أن العيسي أسس شركة مع الحثيلي في جزر العذراء البريطانيّة في السابع من مايو 2014. #PandoraPapers @ICIJorg الشرعيه + الحوثي =النفط #اليمن #Yemen

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@ARIJNetwork

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ملايين اليمنيين يعانون من نقص الوقود، لكن الأصدقاء الأعداء: أحمد صالح العيسى المقرب من عبد ربه منصور هادي، وحسين الحثيلي المقرب من الحوثي، يتفقان في بزنس النفط. تحقيق @mohamed_kawmani و @MortadaSaja ⬇️ #PandoraPapers #أوراق_باندورا #تحقيقات_أريج

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After Houthis forced displacement of rival tribes, they chased them in their displacement. This is a 24-year-old college student from Saada's Saqeen who was snatched from his home, detained, hung by his wrists from the ceiling and beaten on the head and back. #Yemen

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2 years

#وثائق_باندورا : @WillFitzgibbon يكتب عن حول دور الامارات في احتضان اموال اباطرة افقر دول العالم. #الامارات #UAE United Arab Emirates a go-to offshore haven for Africa’s political and business elite, leaked records show via @ICIJorg

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6 months

Reuters latest investigation into atrocities committed by RSF and allied militias in El Geneina, West Darfur. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Sudan refugees detail second wave of ethnic purge by Arab forces

Arab-led RSF forces have pressed ahead with the expulsion of the ethnic-African Masalit tribe in Darfur. Survivors described large-scale killings.

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For the past months, we have been working on investigating RSF massacres in El Geneina, West Darfur. We found a rolling ethnic killing campaign that lasted for weeks. The target: the city’s darker-skinned Masalit tribe, for whom West Darfur is their historical homeland. #Sudan

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. @Reuters interviewed more than 120 people who fled an ethnic massacre in the West Darfur city of El Geneina. They described children being shot, women and girls raped, people picked off by snipers and slaughtered inside mosques where they sought shelter

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In refugee camps, Reuters met with survivors of sexual assaults including women rights advocates, aspiring university students, and a medic. Most said they were gang raped by the RSF and allied militias in El Geneina. #Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan

Sudanese women describe being gang-raped in attacks by Arab forces

Rape is widespread amid the war in Sudan. Young women from the ethnic-African Masalit tribe describe being sexually assaulted by RSF and Arab militia forces.

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3 years

For some Muslims, hope, uncertainty after travel ban lifted (from @AP ) by ⁦ @MariamFam ⁩ ⁦ @seldeeb ⁩

For some Muslims, hope, uncertainty after travel ban lifted

Mohammed Al Zabidi celebrated in 2017 when he learned he had been selected in the U.S. green card lottery, which picks people at random from a large pool of applicants.

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5 years

Thanks to @pulitzercenter your support made a huge difference.

The Associated Press

@AP

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Three @AP journalists who exposed famine and torture in Yemen’s civil war have won a #Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. See our coverage by Maggie Michael ( @mokhbersahafi ), Nariman El-Mofty ( @NMofty ), Maad al-Zikry and the rest of the AP team.

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4 years

Documents seen by the AP showed that the former chief of Libya's UNHCR Roberto Mignone agreed to award millions of dollars in contracts for companies owned by militia commander Mohammed al-Khoja, who has his own detention center where UN reported cases of starvation #Libya

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The EU has sent hundreds of millions to Libya to deal with a migration crisis. That money is making militias rich, an @AP investigation has found.

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All women said the men who attacked them wore either RSF military uniforms, or robes and turbans commonly worn by Arab militiamen. A 20-year-old activist describes how she fought with her assailants, but “there was no one to rescue me.” #Sudan

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2 years

Tomorrow @ICIJorg will release a new investigation focusing an Arab country that became a giant washing machine for the world's dirty money. #PandoraPapers

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1 year

Suitcases of cash, luxury holidays and secret accounts: Qatar bribery scandal rocks Europe

Unprecedented corruption investigation shakes Brussels’ establishment to the core

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9 months

Egyptian journalist detained following mysterious plane coverage, his employer says

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5 years

Yahya Haig, School Principal, was held and tortured by Houthis in an ancient castle in Hodeida. "Before they hang you, they tell you to do a specific exercise, to make you tired and feel the pain more. They ask you to sit down and stand up for 1,000 or 2,000 times." #Yemen

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The Houthis have refused to release positive test results and intimidated medical staff, journalists and families who try to speak out about cases. Doctors and local health officials said they believed many people are dying of COVID-19 in their homes, undocumented.

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U.N. officials said the Houthis’ control of information about the spread of suspected COVID-19 cases has hampered their response. As long as the Houthis do not officially acknowledge cases, the U.N. cannot rally global donors to send supplies to tackle the outbreak. #Yemen

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Yemeni group: Houthi rebels hold, torture female detainees #yemen

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5 years

الحوثيون والاطفال كوقود حرب Read:

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UAE in talks to buy more African land to aid food security

The UAE has 14 land acquisition agreements in the pipeline, mainly in Africa, as it looks to keep food security high on the policy agenda

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There is a tree in El Geneina that the militants called the ‘tree of the dead’, to which they used to bring people for execution by firing squad. #KeepEyesOnSudan

First Person: ‘We had to avoid stepping on the bodies in the streets’ in Darfur

A former UN staff member who worked for a decade in Sudan’s Darfur region for the African Union-United Nations mission, UNAMID, has told UN News how she had to “avoid stepping on the bodies in the...

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🟥 #جرائم_الدعم_السريع 🟥 مأساة #الجنينة، #دارفور: "الطرقات مليئة بالجثث والناس يرددون الشهادة استعداد للموت". - أخبار الأمم المتحدة 29 مارس 2024م "حوصرنا داخل المنازل لأكثر من 57 يوما. استهدفت المليشيات الناس، بصورة ممنهجة، وكان القتل يحدث بناء على التصنيف القبلي. لم تستثن

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Hussein had to dress in an abaya to hide from the RSF and allied militias looking for Masalit men to kill. Hussein said he saw the bodies of young men, many his age, lying in the street, some with their hands tied behind their backs and gunshot wounds to the head.

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Human Rights Watch documented several other Yemeni victims held by Houthis and freed after paying ransom. #Yemen @hrw

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Farouk saved lives inside Hodeida castle, despite his own torture and detention for no crime except that he treated a wounded detainee who was brought to his health center bleeding. Now he lives in a displaced camp, with no support from the government. #Yemen

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Half of Yemen’s health facilities are dysfunctional, and 18% of the country’s 333 districts have no doctors. #Yemen has no more than 500 ventilators and 700 ICU beds nationwide. There is one oxygen cylinder per month for every 2.5 million people.

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سجناء سابقون يحكون حياة التعذيب في سجون المتمردين اليمنيين Read:

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الفساد في توزيع المساعدات في اليمن Read:

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A gravedigger in Aden told AP he’d never seen such a constant flow of dead. He doesn’t know how to deal with the bodies, because burial permits do not list a cause of death. “Is it corona, dengue, or TB? We have no clue,” he said. #Yemen

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IOM reported: 700 killings in two days only in El Geneina in West Darfur and 300 missing. "The situation remains tense and unpredictable."

About 700 reported killed in West Darfur after clashes between Sudanese army and RSF -IOM

Approximately 700 people were reportedly killed in West Darfur after clashes between the Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Geneina on Nov. 4 and 5, the International...

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Extreme measures: In West Darfur, farmers whose lands were plundered by the RSF have eaten the seeds they bought for planting. In the Kordofan region, people have sold their furniture and clothes. In Khartoum, residents under siege picked leaves and boiled and eaten them.

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In Sanaa, medical staffers said they are under surveillance by Houthis and can’t speak about what they see inside health centers. In Aden, many medical facilities in Aden have closed as staffers flee or simply turn patients away.

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8 Minutes and 46 Seconds: How George Floyd Was Killed in Police Custody

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A must-read by ⁦⁦ @seldeeb ⁩ on #ISIS slave system, the “Galaxy” and horrific accounts of #Yazidi women who were sold, raped, and escaped after watching their husbands and brothers executed and dumped in sinkholes.

Investigators build a case for IS crimes against Yazidis

QASR AL-MIHRAB, Iraq (AP) — He was burly, with piercing blue eyes, and it was clear he was in charge when he entered the Galaxy, a wedding hall-turned-slave pen in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

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@alguneid chocked back tears as he talked about @qmaalalmamary2 he met inside Houthi detention after he was electrocuted, sexually assaulted, and dragged him down the stairs. The torture was so severe that he became parlayed. via @YemeniFatima #Yemened

شاهد تفاصيل تعذيب جمال المعمري وزملائه يرويها شاهد العيان الدكتور...

#قناة_بلقيس ،،، صوت اليمنيين- تابعونــــــا ،،، على نايلسات .. تردد رقم 11526 - افقي 5/6 - 27500 - موقعنا الالكتروني :http://www.belqees.tv/

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finally! #Yemen

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Reuters latest investigation: Dozens of mothers said RSF and militiamen slit throats, shot, and clubbed to death their children in their way out of El Geneina. Masalit males were specifically targeted. #Sudan

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Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces paramilitary and its allied Arab militias specifically targeted male members of the Masalit tribe for death, from infants to adults, witnesses say @specialreports

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"Yemen is not only one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises; it has also witnessed one of the worst international responses." @maysaashujaa to the UN Security Council on #Yemen @sanaacenter

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Sudan lost half of its cereal production as farmers fled their lands or had no money to buy fuel and fertilizers. In El Gezira, farmers who planted their lands were forced at gunpoint to carry their harvested crops to RSF vehicles.

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#UAE #trafficking As UAE police vehicles slowly navigate al Baraha district in Dubai, women come down every night, stand in front of their buildings to sell their bodies and pay their traffickers.

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African women trafficked into the UAE endure threats and violence as they are kept in sexual slavery. The case of Christy Gold, who has been charged with sex trafficking in Nigeria, shows how networks of suspected traffickers operate

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#Yemen 's @mwatanaar documented killings of journalists in 2015. Youssef and Abdullah were killed after being placed in a site at risk of airstrikes. The militiamen used civilians as human shields. Houthi authority: A dark era in history of Yemeni press

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Cats for adoption. #Egypt

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Captured by gov. forces earlier this year, Mouaid was recruited by Houthis in Amran after he dropped out of school. Why? he said: Coalition jets destroyed it in 2015 after Houthis used the school to store, hide weapons. #Yemen

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RSF turned public facilities to detention centers. Yahia was locked in a room without food or water with other detainees that some started to drink their own urine. Captors quizzed them about their tribal affiliation. Those who answered “Masalit" were executed. #Sudan #ElGeneina

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"If governments don’t also target the proxies and shell companies that support these elites, he said, “the sanctions are not worth anything.” Russian bankers shuffled personal wealth offshore long before latest sanctions, Pandora Papers show by @shirafu

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In addition to El Geneina, other towns in West Darfur came under similar attacks. Adam Hassan from Murnei showed us an album with pictures of his son and father. “My son was killed and they threw his body in the fire." "They didn’t want to see any Blacks in the town." #Sudan

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في دبي ايضا فريد بجاوي ، ابن شقيق وزير خارجية جزائري سابق، في عام 2013 ، اتهمته السلطات الإيطالية بالرشوة والفساد بدعوى أنه استخدم نفوذه لتضخيم عقود النفط والغاز ثم اقتطع ملايين الدولارات لنفسه. كان يلقب ب "السيد. 3٪." #UAE

هذا هو فريد بجاوي بطل فضيحة سوناطراك

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Sometimes people hunt cats and birds to eat to stave off hunger after the RSF laid siege to areas across the capital.

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@mokhbersahafi

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NBC investigation: A UAE tip behind the failed US raid in #Yemen where 10 Yemeni children were killed.

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@mokhbersahafi

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“If you are suspected of having corona and you are in Aden, most probably you will wait at home for your death,” said Mohammed Roubaid of the Aden’s health office. From May 7 until Thursday, the city’s civil registrar recorded 527 deaths.

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“I cannot even speak about our preparedness for the coronavirus,” a Yemeni doctor said, “because we have none.” #Yemen by @IsabelDeBre

Ravaged by war, Middle Eastern countries face a new scourge

CAIRO (AP) — When Dr. Ismail al-Mansouri goes to work in Yemen’s capital, he puts on one of the hospital’s few pairs of medical gloves.

apnews.com

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@mokhbersahafi

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Sudan's RSF accused of targeting atrocity witnesses in Darfur

Lawyers, activists and others tell MEE that the Sudanese paramilitary and its allies are deliberately killing witnesses to its crimes

www.middleeasteye.net

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@mokhbersahafi

4 years

No one is testing — and authorities are not eager to see higher numbers anyway, said one official, adding, “The whole chain is dysfunctional” #Yemen

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@mokhbersahafi

5 years

Houthi movement is a militia that is better understood as an ideologically driven mafia, one that has through the course of the conflict rapidly learned how to manipulate the international community and garnered its own ambitions for statehood. #Yemen

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Amal was hospitalized by MSF several times as she apparently suffered TB in addition to malnutrition. She was know to Houthis as after an AP report which featured her along with other children, Houthis transferred 5 cases to Sanaa in front of cameras. Amal was left behind. #Yemen

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People tried to document killings by RSF and Janjaweed amid a campaign by the militiamen to bury evidence #Sudan #ElGeneina

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@mokhbersahafi

3 years

This morning, Houthi militias executed 9 Yemeni detainees after a sham trial for alleged involvement in the death of one of the group's leaders, Saleh Al Samad. #Yemen

Afrah Nasser أفراح ناصر

@Afrahnasser

3 years

am receiving multiple reports frm contacts in Sana’a that Houthi authorities plan to carry public execution Sat of dozens of arbitrary detainees charged w/ killing Houthi political council, Al-Samad who was killed in a Saudi-led co’ airstrike 2018 #Yemen

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In June, Emirati shipments of armored vehicles and weapons arrived in Aden for the militias. The Emiratis assured the government that the weapons were solely for the front lines against the Houthis. #Yemen “We were all fooled,” one official said.

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Women were sexually assaulted by RSF while trying to escape to save their children from hunger. “I saw women dragged to empty buildings," a mother told us. "They groped me, three or four times along the way.” #Sudan

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@mokhbersahafi

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A Masalit woman told Reuters she and her sister warded off the militiamen by making up stories. One said she was menstruating, while her sister told the militiamen she was HIV-positive. “They wanted to rape us." The stories put them off. #Sudan

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@mokhbersahafi

3 years

Yemeni journalist Adeeb Al Janabi killed while covering the arrival of the new cabinet to #Aden

بسيم الجناني #اليمن

@Basem_Ganani

3 years

آخر لحظات لاستشهاد الزميل أديب الجناني ، كان على الهواء مباشرة عبر الهاتف ينقل الصورة من مطار #عدن أثناء وقوع الإنفجار. لحظات مؤثرة جداً في هذا الفيديو ، رحمة الله تغشاك يا أديب.

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#Yemen , a country of nearly 30 million people, carried 800 tests so far. Major powers in Yemen’s proxy/civil wars: Saudi: half a million tests. UAE: 1.5 million tests Iran: 630,000 tests.

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@mokhbersahafi

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Food factories, flour mills, and ranches were destroyed, including the only factory in Sudan making therapeutic food for children suffering from malnutrition. The owner's family: “It’s a huge loss at a time when famine is coming."

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People, trapped in more than a dozen districts across Khartoum, are at “risk of famine” as the warring parties have “employed siege-like tactics to cut off supplies to their opponent.” #Sudan

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@mokhbersahafi

4 years

Security agents burst into the home of an ophthalmologist over his Facebook post that criticized the government for sending coronavirus aid to Italy & China while its own doctors were desperately short of protective equipment. He remains in detention on terrorism charges. #Egypt

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@mokhbersahafi

5 years

“Since the Houthis came to power, looting has been on a large scale,” said Abdullah al-Hamidi, who served as acting education minister in the Houthi-run government in the north before defecting to the coalition side earlier this year. #Yemen

Kareem Fahim

@kfahim

5 years

Food aid stolen as Yemen starves, by @mokhbersahafi "Factions and militias on all sides of the conflict have blocked food aid from going to groups suspected of disloyalty, diverted it to front-line combat units or sold it for profit on the black market."

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Hundreds of Sudanese families are stuck in Wadi Halfa in very harsh weather and living conditions. Elders, pregnant women, and children live in the open waiting for their sons, brothers, and husbands to get visas. Egypt can do much more. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Sudan's well-off stuck in limbo at border town en route to Egypt

After sleeping for a week under a tree in the backyard of a mosque in the Sudanese town of Wadi Halfa, Dalia Hassan is torn over whether she should cross the frontier into Egypt, or wait until her...

www.reuters.com

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@mokhbersahafi

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Sadek, 13-year-old, was told he will carry supplies to the fighters. Instead, Houthis took him to a military camp where he was trained on fighting and hiding. At the front line, he saw children his age, "torn in pieces. One was beheaded. Others had lost their hands." #Yemen

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Exclusive: Sudan militia leader grew rich by selling gold

Exclusive:Sudan militia leader grew rich by selling gold

Late last year, as President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's hold on power weakened, one of Sudan's most feared militia leaders lashed out against the government of his long-time ally and benefactor.

www.reuters.com

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@mokhbersahafi

4 years

Amazing

Joyce Karam

@Joyce_Karam

4 years

You can put Italy in lockdown but you can’t take life out of Italians. Italians on their balconies in Rome today singing beautifully and breaking the chains of #coronavirus 🎶 🇮🇹

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Others like Yacoub Yahia was tied to a mango tree and forced to hang by his arms for two days. Torture marks were visible weeks after he escaped. #Sudan #ElGeneina

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4 years

Houthis’ quarantine #Yemen

Maggie Michael

@mokhbersahafi

4 years

In Yemen, travelers fear Houthis’ quarantine: “If one person is carrying the virus, it will infect thousands,” said Abdel-Salam al-Gorbany. “The situation here is very miserable.”

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Thanks to our great editors @michaelwhudson @LKeath @TrishWbelli @MarjorieJMiller @RaghuWrites

The Associated Press

@AP

5 years

See the breadth of coverage of Yemen’s civil war and humanitarian crisis that earned @AP journalists Maggie Michael ( @mokhbersahafi ), Nariman El-Mofty ( @NMofty ), Maad al-Zikry a #Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.

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Khaled Ali carried over shoulders amid chants and clapping #egypt now ppl marching in the street