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Jordanian minister, Rwandan ambassador discuss bilateral investment cooperation

Jordanian minister, Rwandan ambassador discuss bilateral investment cooperation
Jordanian Investment Minister Kholoud Saqqaf met Rwandan Ambassador to Jordan Urujeni Bakuramutsa. (Petra)
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Updated 19 July 2024
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Jordanian minister, Rwandan ambassador discuss bilateral investment cooperation

Jordanian minister, Rwandan ambassador discuss bilateral investment cooperation
  • Meeting in the wake of King Abdullah’s visit to Rwanda in January
Updated 19 July 2024
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AMMAN: Jordanian Investment Minister Kholoud Saqqaf met Rwandan Ambassador to Jordan Urujeni Bakuramutsa on Thursday to discuss ways to enhance bilateral investment cooperation, the Jordan News Agency reported.

The meeting came following King Abdullah’s visit to Rwanda in January.

Saqqaf spoke of the importance of the Rwandan minister of industry and trade’s visit to Jordan in February, which featured the Jordanian-Rwandan Business Forum and high-level discussions.

Talks between Saqqaf and Bakuramutsa centered on key investment opportunities, indicators, and incentives available under Jordan’s newly implemented Investment Environment Law. Saqqaf also provided the ambassador with an overview of the investment platform invest.jo.

The two officials reviewed Jordan’s advances in its investment climate over the past two years, noting the increased potential for attracting further investment.

Saqqaf highlighted significant opportunities for collaboration, particularly within the trade and investment sectors, and expressed Jordan’s eagerness to strengthen and expand partnerships.

The Jordanian minister called for greater encouragement for Rwandan businesses to explore investment opportunities in Jordan, suggesting that promotional visits could be instrumental in showcasing Jordan’s investment potential.

Bakuramutsa praised the robust bilateral relations between the countries and reaffirmed Rwanda’s commitment to deepening ties for mutual benefit.

The ambassador also stressed the importance of organizing reciprocal meetings of investors to showcase prominent opportunities in both Jordan and Rwanda.
 

Topics: Jordan Rwanda

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Displaced Gazans face dire conditions in hospital courtyard

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Displaced Gazans face dire conditions in hospital courtyard

Displaced Gazans face dire conditions in hospital courtyard
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Other tents clustered nearby give little relief from the sweltering heat, and none from the attacks that have followed them to their new home
Conditions are dire across the territory with severe shortages of water, medicine and fuel. Few hospitals are functional

GAZA: Iqbal Al-Zeidi has been going out to retrieve her family’s belongings from the rubble of their home ever since it was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City almost a year ago.
Braving more bombardments, she said she has traveled up to the wrecked site, collected bedsheets, clothes and blankets, and brought them back to their shelter — a torn tent in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Hospital about 10 miles (16km) south in the city of Deir Al-Balah.
Other tents clustered nearby give little relief from the sweltering heat, and none from the attacks that have followed them to their new home.
On Thursday, four people died when an Israeli airstrike hit tents where other displaced families were living close to the same hospital, local medics said.
She is among the millions of Gazans who have been moving up and down the besieged and overcrowded enclave, escaping an attack in one location, only to face more attacks in their new place of refuge.
“Our house was a 120-square-meter apartment. Now we live in a tent just 4 meters by 4 meters,” Al-Zeidi said, visibly worn out by the heat.
“We left our house under bombing, with nothing — no papers, no certificates, nothing. We are completely erased.”

WORSENING HEALTH CONDITIONS
Conditions are dire across the territory with severe shortages of water, medicine and fuel. Few hospitals are functional.
The collapse in Gaza’s health system has complicated a host of other unfolding disasters, from a hunger crisis to spreading disease. It has left those with chronic conditions unable to access basic care.
“My granddaughter has a heart condition, and we can’t get treatment. I am sick myself, with high blood pressure and diabetes, but I can’t find medication,” Al-Zeidi told Reuters.
The conflict erupted on Oct. 7, when Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 250 people hostage, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel responded with a military campaign that has killed more than 40,861 Palestinians, according to Gaza health authorities.
Israel says it goes to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties and has accused Hamas of using human shields and operating from places like schools and hospitals. The group denies the allegations and alleges that Israel bombs Palestinians indiscriminately.
Near Al-Aqsa Hospital, Al-Zeidi’s eight-month-old grandson sat inside the tent while other family members looked for shade nearby.
“Another month will pass, and we will have been here for a year. We run after food, water, all amidst diseases,” she said.

Life returns to raided West Bank city as Israeli army withdraws

Life returns to raided West Bank city as Israeli army withdraws
Updated 06 September 2024
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Life returns to raided West Bank city as Israeli army withdraws

Life returns to raided West Bank city as Israeli army withdraws
  • Days of destructive incursions by soldiers backed by armored vehicles and bulldozers
  • Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 and its forces regularly make incursions into Palestinian communities
Updated 06 September 2024
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JENIN, Palestinian Territories: The Israeli army withdrew from the city of Jenin and its refugee camp on Friday after a 10-day operation that left 36 dead across the occupied West Bank, witnesses said.

After days of destructive incursions by soldiers backed by armored vehicles and bulldozers, residents who had fled began returning to their homes in the camp, a bastion of Palestinian armed groups fighting against Israel, AFP journalists said.

On August 28, the army launched a military operation in several cities and towns of the northern West Bank including Jenin.

It said in a statement on Friday that Israeli forces “have been conducting counterterrorism activity in the area of Jenin,” without confirming a withdrawal.

“Israeli security forces are continuing to act in order to achieve the objectives of the counterterrorism operation,” the statement said.

Over the course of the operation in Jenin, Israeli forces killed 14 militants, arrested 30 suspects, dismantled “approximately 30 explosives planted under roads” and conducted four aerial strikes, the statement said.

One Israeli soldier was killed in Jenin, where most of the Palestinian fatalities have occurred.

Hamas, whose October 7 attack on southern Israel triggered the ongoing war in Gaza, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have said at least 14 of the dead were militants.

Aziz Taleb, a 48-year-old father of seven, returned to his family home of 20 years to find soldiers had raided it.

“Thank God (the children) left the day before. They went to stay with our neighbors here,” he said.

“If they had stayed, they would have been killed without warning or anything,” he said as he surveyed the damage, glass crunching under his feet.

Many homes in Jenin camp were damaged or destroyed by army bulldozers and pavement was stripped from the roads.

Residents used bulldozers of their own to begin clearing the rubble on Friday after Israeli armored vehicles left, AFP journalists reported.

The early trickle of returning residents turned into a flood, and soon children were playing in the streets.

Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 and its forces regularly make incursions into Palestinian communities, but the latest raids as well as hawkish comments by Israeli officials signaled an escalation, residents said.

Since the Gaza war began on October 7, Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 661 Palestinians in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

At least 23 Israelis, including security forces, have been killed in Palestinian attacks in the territory during the same period, according to Israeli officials.

Topics: War on Gaza Israel Gaza Jenin

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Rift over ultra-Orthodox education funding deepens Israeli coalition woes

Rift over ultra-Orthodox education funding deepens Israeli coalition woes
Updated 06 September 2024
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Rift over ultra-Orthodox education funding deepens Israeli coalition woes

Rift over ultra-Orthodox education funding deepens Israeli coalition woes
  • The ultra-Orthodox parties have been less vocal about the conduct of the war but have fought hard for benefits for their Haredi community
  • Tensions have run especially high over the recent abolition of an exemption long enjoyed by Haredi men from conscription into the military
Updated 06 September 2024
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JERUSALEM: Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties, already at odds with coalition partners over demands to draft young religious men into the army, are again testing the unity of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government with a challenge over education funding.
The latest rift centers on an ultra-Orthodox push for schools in their separate education system to receive the same benefits as state-run schools, especially their “New Horizon” program that adds school hours and sharply hikes teacher pay.
“For a year we have been fighting for the entry of ‘New Horizon’ into ultra-Orthodox institutions. There is no reason for our teachers to be discriminated against,” said ultra-Orthodox Education Minister Haim Biton.
Biton, a member of Shas, one of two Orthodox parties in the right-wing coalition, said they would not quit the government over the issue. But the other ultra-Orthodox party, United Torah Judaism (UTJ), notified the coalition whip that until the funding issue was resolved it would boycott votes in parliament.
Coalition whip Ophir Katz said he was working to avert a showdown ahead of a vote on a 3.4 billion shekel ($918.35 million) budget boost to help fund tens of thousands of Israelis displaced from their homes by rocket fire from Lebanon.
The dispute is the latest of many that have highlighted both the tensions within Netanyahu’s unwieldy coalition through almost two years of near-constant crisis punctuated by mass protests against judicial reforms and the Gaza war.
With a grouping of religious and hard-line nationalist-religious parties and his own right-wing Likud party, Netanyahu controls 64 of parliament’s 120 seats but from the start, relations between ministers have been fractious.
Far-right parties led by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have repeatedly shaken the coalition over issues including the handling of the Gaza war, threatening to leave over any move, backed by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, toward a deal to end the conflict.
The ultra-Orthodox parties have been less vocal about the conduct of the war but have fought hard for benefits for their Haredi community, who comprise around 13 percent of the population.
Tensions have run especially high over the recent abolition of an exemption long enjoyed by Haredi men from conscription into the military under a ruling by the Supreme Court, but the education budget has also caused problems.
“The Haredi parties feel that the extreme right secured all of its demands from the government and Ben-Gvir gets whatever he wants from the prime minister, while they are failing,” said Gilad Malach, director of the Israel Democracy Institute’s ultra-Orthodox program.
With Netanyahu’s government likely to face a reckoning at the polls over the security failures that allowed the Oct. 7 cross-border attack by Hamas from Gaza to happen, none of the parties have shown any real inclination to walk out.
But even so, such tensions contain the seeds of future problems, Malach said. “It might begin a process that all parties don’t want right now but that might be the result.”

Topics: Israel

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Tunisian presidential candidate Zammel released from detention, state news agency says

Tunisian presidential candidate Zammel released from detention, state news agency says
Updated 06 September 2024
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Tunisian presidential candidate Zammel released from detention, state news agency says
  • Ayachi Zammel is one of three candidates approved by Tunisia’s electoral commission to run in a presidential election on Oct. 6
  • Zammel campaign member Mahdi Abdel Jawad described his arrest as a kidnapping
Updated 06 September 2024
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TUNIS: Tunisian presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel was released from police custody on Friday shortly after he was set free from a previous detention then re-arrested over alleged election-related irregularities, the state news agency TAP reported.

Zammel is one of three candidates approved by Tunisia’s electoral commission to run in a presidential election on Oct. 6 which opposition critics say is rigged in favor of President Kais Saied.

He was arrested on Monday on suspicion of falsifying voter forms. A judge ordered him set free on Thursday. But two lawyers for Zammel, Abdessatar Massoudi and Dalila Ben Mbarek, said he was arrested again immediately after his release from Borj El Amri prison.

On Friday, he was released again on a judge’s orders, TAP said. His case was postponed until Sept. 19.

Zammel campaign member Mahdi Abdel Jawad described his arrest as a kidnapping.

He is accused of falsifying voter forms for next month’s election. Each candidate must submit forms from 10,000 supporters to qualify to stand. He denies the allegation.

Zammel has said he faces restrictions and intimidation because he is a serious competitor to Saied. He has pledged to rebuild democracy, guarantee freedoms and fix Tunisia’s collapsing economy.

Saied was democratically elected in 2019, but then tightened his grip on power and began ruling by decree in 2021 in a move the opposition has described as a coup.

Major political factions say Saied’s years in power have eroded the democratic gains of Tunisia’s 2011 revolution.

Opposition parties and human rights groups have accused the authorities of using arbitrary restrictions to help ensure Saied’s re-election.

Along with Zammel and Saied, politician Zouhair Maghzaoui is approved to run in the election.

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UN mission says both Sudan sides committed abuses, peacekeepers needed

UN mission says both Sudan sides committed abuses, peacekeepers needed
Updated 06 September 2024
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UN mission says both Sudan sides committed abuses, peacekeepers needed

UN mission says both Sudan sides committed abuses, peacekeepers needed
  • Report said that both the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces were responsible for attacks on civilians
Updated 06 September 2024
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GENEVA: Both sides in Sudan’s civil war have committed abuses that may amount to war crimes, and world powers need to send in peacekeepers and widen an arms embargo to protect civilians, a UN-mandated mission said on Friday.
Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have both raped and attacked civilians, used torture and made arbitrary arrests, according to the report that said it was based on 182 interviews with survivors, relatives and witnesses. “The gravity of our findings and failure of the warring parties to protect civilians underscores the need for urgent and immediate intervention,” the UN fact-finding mission’s chair, Mohamed Chande Othman, told reporters.
Both sides have dismissed past accusations from the US and rights groups, and have accused each other of carrying out abuses. Neither immediately responded to requests for comment on Friday, or released a statement in response to the report.
Othman and the two other mission members called for an independent force to be deployed without delay.
“We cannot continue to have people dying before our eyes and do nothing about it,” mission member Mona Rishmawi said. A UN-mandated peacekeeping force was a possibility, she added.
The mission called for the expansion of an existing UN arms embargo which currently just applies to the western region of Darfur where thousands of ethnic killings have been reported. The war that started in Khartoum in April last year has spread to 14 out of 18 of the country’s states.

Hundreds of rapes reported
The mission said it had also found reasonable grounds to believe the RSF and its allied militias had committed additional war crimes including the abduction of women who were forced into sexual slavery and the recruitment of child soldiers.
Mission member Joy Ngozi Ezeilo said unnamed support groups had received reports of more than 400 rapes in the first year of the war, but the real number was probably much higher.
“The rare brutality of this war will have a devastating and long-lasting psychological impact on children,” she said.
The fact-finding team said it had tried to contact Sudanese authorities on multiple occasions but had got no answer. It said the RSF had asked to cooperate with the mission, without elaborating.
The conflict began when competition between the army and the RSF, who had previously shared power after staging a coup, flared into open warfare.
Civilians in Sudan are facing worsening famine, mass displacement and disease after 17 months of war, aid agencies say.
US-led mediators said last month that they had secured guarantees from both parties at talks in Switzerland to improve access for humanitarian aid, but that the Sudanese army’s absence from the discussions had hindered progress.
The report is the three-member mission’s first since its creation in October 2023 by the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
A group of Western countries including Britain will call for its renewal at a meeting this month, with diplomats expecting opposition from Sudan which says the war is an internal affair.

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