Author: Steven Sahiounie

Israel is deliberately delaying and blocking more food supplies from entering Gaza in comparison with other forms of humanitarian aid, the UN said on Tuesday.With famine looming, the claim will fuel allegations that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war, a crime under international law.The UN’s humanitarian agency said statistics from March showed that it was much more difficult to obtain clearance for delivering food than other aid. “Food convoys that should be going particularly to the north, where 70 percent of people face famine conditions, are … three times more likely to be denied than any other…

In a phone conversation this evening, President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi discussed the latest developments in Palestine, particularly the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip. President Abbas emphasized the urgent need to halt the genocidal war against our people, stressing the importance of expediting the delivery of humanitarian, relief, and medical aid, preventing displacement, and stopping the Israeli escalation in the West Bank, including Jerusalem. The President expressed gratitude and appreciation to President el-Sisi and the people of Egypt for their steadfast support for the just Palestinian cause. He commended…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Sunday’s nationwide elections in Turkey were surprising. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its majority to the main opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) for the first time since 2001. The left-leaning CHP emerged as the leading party in Turkey for the first time since 1977. The AKP’s overall vote share fell 2% below that of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), which secured 37.74% of the vote nationwide. The CHP won landslide victories in the largest cities, including in Ankara and Istanbul, and also captured 16 cities…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The Jews are closely associated with the word holocaust. The word is culturally attached to the Jewish people, recalling a terrible genocide in Europe in the WW2 era which killed millions. It wasn’t the first genocide of modern times, that was committed on the Armenians and Syrian Christians in 1916, and it likely will not be the last genocide. We are currently watching the 2024 genocide in Gaza. Similarly, the Japanese are closely associated with the word Hiroshima, recalling the twin US attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which turned some 100,000 people instantly into…

For 2025, it predicted gross domestic product (GDP) in the eurozone’s third-largest economy would increase by 1.2 percent, compared to a previous forecast of 1.4 percent

Gold prices hit a record high on Tuesday for an eighth consecutive session on geopolitical worries and support from momentum-following funds.

Egypt has recorded a primary surplus of EGP 416 billion during the first nine months of the current fiscal year (FY) 2023/2024, amounting to 3% of the gross domestic product (GDP), Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait revealed in a statement on April 8th.

Remittances of Egyptian workers abroad dropped by 21.2% to $9.4 billion in H1 FY2023/2024 from $12 billion in the comparable period a FY earlier

The current account deficit increased to $9.60 billion during the July-December 2023 period from $1.80 billion in H1-22/23, according to the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE)

The GDP surged to $40bln at constant prices for 2023 compared to $35bln the year before Bahrain’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 2.4% at constant prices in 2023 when compared to the previous year, according to national accounts estimates issued by the Information and eGovernment Authority (iGA). The GDP surged to BD13.6 billion ($40 billion) at constant prices for 2023 compared to BD13.3 billion ($35 billion) the year before. The iGA report also indicated that financial projects are among the largest non-oil sectors contributing to the real GDP with 17.8%, followed by the manufacturing industry with 13.6%. As per…