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Saada Arbane has lived without a voice since her throat was slit during the Algerian civil war. But now, the 31-year-old woman has vowed to make herself heard after she said a best-selling novel plagiarised her life.

Kamel Daoud’s novel “Houris” — banned in Algeria and awarded France’s top literary prize Prix Goncourt last year — tells the story of a child who loses her voice when an Islamist cuts her throat during the 1990s war.

Last November, Arbane took the literary world by storm when…

Gaza is at “critical risk of famine”, with 22 percent of the population facing an imminent humanitarian “catastrophe” after more than two months of an aid blockade by Israel, a food security monitor warned Monday.

Gaza’s entire population of around 2.4 million people is at risk of a food crisis “or worse” by September, the UN- and NGO-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said in a report.

“Nineteen months into the conflict, the Gaza Strip is still confronted with a…

Palestinians in Gaza are starving as a result of a “deliberate, entirely engineered” policy being implemented by Israel, Oxfam said today.

Commenting on the recent Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report on Gaza warning that a risk of famine is “increasingly likely” if intense hostilities and restricted humanitarian access persist or worsen, Oxfam’s Food Security and Livelihoods Coordinator, Mahmoud Alsaqqa said: “Gaza’s…

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani announced that Damascus will dispatch a special team to Sudan to assess the situation of Syrians currently residing there.

Al-Shaibani wrote: “In line with the directives of His Excellency President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, we will send a special team to Sudan to assess the situation of Syrians under the current circumstances.”

“The team will provide the necessary support, work to evacuate them and ensure their safety.”