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Friday, 2 April, 2021 - 08:30 An Egyptian man receiving a dose of the coronavirus vaccine in Cairo (EPA) Cairo - Asharq Al-Awsat Egypt received more than 854,400 doses of COVID-19 vaccines as part of the global COVAX agreement. Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said Thursday that the shipment is part of 40 million doses Egypt is set to receive via GAVI. Egypt now has 1.6 million doses available, in addition to another 400,000 do...

Friday, 2 April, 2021 - 07:30 Fatah Central Committee member, Jibril Rajoub at the election center on Wednesday to register the movement’s list. (Reuters) Ramallah - Kifah Zboun The Fatah movement kicked off its electoral campaign by calling on its supporters to reject the “defectors”, in its first clear and direct comment on the alliances made by current and former leaders in the movement. Fatah member, Jibril Rajoub assert...

Friday, 2 April, 2021 - 07:00 Asharq Al-Awsat The IMF has approved $174 million (148 million euros) in emergency assistance to South Sudan, the countrys central bank governor said Thursday, as floods and depressed oil prices rattle its economy. South Sudan ran out of foreign exchange reserves last year as oil prices fell sharply due to the coronavirus pandemic, depriving the fragile government in Juba of much-needed revenue and s...

Friday, 2 April, 2021 - 06:30 New frontier: Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button. (AFP) Asharq Al-Awsat Billed as motor-sport with a "platform for climate action", Extreme E gets underway in the deserts of Saudi Arabia on Sunday before attempting to highlight the environmental dangers posed to the Arctic, Amazon rainforest as well as oceans and glaciers. The five-round series, which has enlisted world Formula One champion Lewis Hamilt...

Friday, 2 April, 2021 - 08:15 The Yemeni foreign minister meets with US special envoy to Yemen in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Twitter) Washington – Muath Alamri Washington has reaffirmed that communication is ongoing with all warring parties in Yemen with the aim of pressing for a settlement that ends the conflict in the war-torn country. This coincided with the Biden administration reviewing chances for stepping up military equip...

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Friday, 2 April, 2021 - 07:15 The Sudanese Minister of Irrigation during virtual talks with his Egyptian and Ethiopian counterparts in June 2020. (AFP) Khartoum, Cairo - Ahmed Younis, Mohammed Abdo Hassanein The foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan will meet in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa, on Saturday for talks on the mega-dam Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile. President Felix ...

Friday, 2 April, 2021 - 09:00 An IDP camp in Marib, Yemen. (AFP) Aden – Ali Rabih At a time when doubts are rising about the true potential of Houthis seriously engaging with efforts to end the conflict in Yemen, leaders in the Iran-backed militia released statements fiercely ridiculing Washington’s latest press for a ceasefire in the war-torn country. Houthis have also continued to mount a fierce military operation against Ye...

Friday, 2 April, 2021 - 05:45 Iraqi PM Kadhimi performs the Umrah in Makkah on Wednesday. (SPA) Riyadh – Nasser al-Haqbani Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi underscored the importance of Arab presence in his country. Speaking at a press briefing late on Wednesday on the sidelines of his visit to Saudi Arabia, he added that the presence of the Kingdom in Iraq will play a major role in the stability of the region and his cou...

Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities