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The WHO Ebola warning is real
THERE are those who are already arguing that by declaring a “public health emergency of international concern” the World Health Organization (WHO) is over-reacting to the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The reasoning goes that had the treat been truly serious the WHO would have called for borders to be closed to stop travelers spreading the contagion.However, such arguments completely miss the point. So far more than 1,600 people have perished from this terrible disease which in West Africa from 2014 to 2016 led to over 11,000 deaths and brought local heath services to their knees. What almost certainly triggered this WHO declaration was that the first Ebola case has just been confirmed in a DRC city of Goma, home to more than a million people. There is a clear...
July 19, 2019

The WHO Ebola warning is real

Road to Makkah: Welcome pilgrims
Al-JazirahI was impressed by the Makkah Road Initiative, which I heard about two years ago, but I did not pay much attention to the details of the project until the announcement that Tunisian pilgrims were being included in the initiative this year. I started investigating the changes the program is making for pilgrims, and I found that there is a big difference in the quality of services and facilities being provided for those performing Haj from the time of departure from their countries until they arrive in Saudi Arabia, where they find buses waiting to take them to their accommodation without any waiting at the airport.The Makkah Road Initiative does not stop at this point; it is an integrated service from the moment any person decides to perform Haj and the visa is issued, and the...
July 18, 2019

Road to Makkah: Welcome pilgrims

Revolutionary technology arriving
The two little letters “AI” represent a technology that is set to revolutionize virtually every sphere of our daily lives. Artificial Intelligence, whereby computers not only are programmed to respond to a wide range of circumstances but also learn how to cope with each new incident encountered, is already a reality. Last month the first commercial maritime cargo was shipped between the UK and Belgium in a vessel without any crew. It may have only been a five-kilogram box of British oysters, but the12-meter vessel maneuvered them safely across the English Channel, through one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.The team that developed this crewless boat are predicting that fully autonomous cargo ships will be in operation by 2025. There will still be land-based “crew”...
July 17, 2019

Revolutionary technology arriving

The Qatari missile and Saudi Arabia’s name!
Italian police have seized a French missile bearing the name of the Qatari Royal Air Force that was in the possession of a Nazi extremist terrorist group. Such weapons are not sold in the back alleys of cities like machine guns, and do not easily move between cities and states like checked baggage.In order for this missile to reach this outlawed group, it must have been transported by armed militias engaged in wars supported by state governments, not gangs fighting for areas of influence in the alleyways of some city.It is noteworthy that the Western media have reported the Qatari identity of the missile in such a way that it did not become breaking news, and this may indeed be acceptable professionally as investigations are still underway. However, one can imagine how Western media would...
July 17, 2019

The Qatari missile and Saudi Arabia’s name!

Terrorism’s evil flame still gutters in Tunisia
IT is a cruel reality of terrorists that when they cannot reach a well-guarded soft target, they attack instead those who are protecting it. This is what Tunisia is now experiencing. The country’s important tourist industry was shattered by the 2015 slaughter at the Bardo museum in the capital and the carnage on a beach in the resort of Sousse. Daesh (the so-called IS) proudly claimed these horrific crimes.And it achieved its nihilist aim because almost overnight, the tourists fled, empty hotels were forced to close and ten of thousands of Tunisians who had earned their living from tourism were thrown out of work. Last year however, governments around the world were removing their warnings against travel to the country and the holiday-makers have come flocking back.The inept security at...
July 17, 2019

Terrorism’s evil flame still gutters in Tunisia

A world that is constantly changing!
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments on “the end of liberal values” have been met with a violent reaction from political elites in Europe and the United States, saying that Putin’s voice is the embodiment of “tyranny of the individual and the suppression of freedoms” threatening global peace and damaging regimes and rights acquired over the past years by the international community. Putin’s statement is regarded by political analysts as another nail in the coffin of globalization, which many consider to already be at death’s door. This is evidenced by a sharp increase in trade protectionist policies and a racist hostility in the name of “patriotism”. China, the second largest economy in the world, is mainly dependent for economic growth on the domestic...
July 14, 2019

A world that is constantly changing!

Iran and Hell’s Gate!
It appears that the multifaceted aspects of Iranian policy have become manifest. The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that Tehran will reduce its commitments to the nuclear agreement even further. However, “we can rescind all these steps,” he added, if the European countries implement their commitments. These double standards and contradictions in statements have become a defining feature of Iranian policies. Such statements are made by extremist and terrorist regimes and movements throughout the world. They make one threat after another, quickly backtrack and then return to threaten again! Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has given Iran’s partners in the nuclear agreement a grace period of 60 days to reach a solution that meets his...
July 14, 2019

Iran and Hell’s Gate!

Erdogan has lost his way
Erdogan is living in a state of delusion imagining the revival of the Ottoman Empire. As a result of this delusion, he has built a 1150-room presidential palace with large gardens, a conference center and an operations room with satellite connections, military telecommunications systems and fortifications that can resist biological, nuclear and chemical weapons. The palace has tight security measures that prevent the eavesdropping on telephone conversations. The palace guards wear the uniforms of the Ottoman Guard. All of the construction costs and post-construction costs including the maintenance and operation of this palace were enormous in order to satisfy Erdogan’s dream of reviving the Empire. That dream has caused Turkey to lose its European and American allies, as well as...
July 13, 2019

Erdogan has lost his way

Tragedy ignored
INTERNATIONAL news coverage is like a carnival parade. Loud trumpets and vivid displays pass by quickly then the noise and spectacle fade into the distance. So it is with appalling stories of tragedy around the world, including the shocking fate of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya people. They were driven from their homes by genocidal Buddhist monks, actively assisted by police and military and condoned by the government of Aung San Suu Kyi, the woman who has brought shame to the Nobel Peace Laureate that she holds.Despite damning reports and international protests at the savage butchery that caused a tidal wave of 700,000 refugees to flee into neighboring Bangladesh, the Myanmar government has suffered no consequences whatsoever for its reprehensible behavior. It has survived with nothing more...
July 12, 2019

Tragedy ignored

Can Mahdi tame Iraq’s militias?
When it comes to militias, he who pays the piper does not always call the tune. The 2011 Libyan revolution was won by a hotchpotch of different militias. Probably the worst mistake made by the National Transitional Council (NTC) was putting these fighters on the payroll until it could rebuild the country’s police and army. The idea was they would form the core of new security forces. But it never happened. Militia warlords and their men were too jealous of their newfound power. The story has been similar in Iraq. The national army was deliberately hollowed out during the eight-year misrule of Nouri Al-Maliki who appointed unqualified cronies to senior command positions. Thus, when a small force of Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) terrorists approached Mosul, the...
July 10, 2019

Can Mahdi tame Iraq’s militias?

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