Displaced Yemeni families face harsh conditions amid ongoing conflict
[ad_1] Issued on: 07/09/2023 – 15:38 05:12 FOCUS © FRANCE 24 Nine years of war in Yemen have displaced millions of people. As negotiations drag...
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Syria protests spurred by economic misery stir memories of 2011 uprising
[ad_1] Anti-government protests in southern Syria have stretched into a second week, with demonstrators waving the colorful flag of the minority Druze community, burning banners...
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Paris summit on climate and finance ends without deal on global
[ad_1] Participants at the Paris summit on finance and climate stopped short of a deal to create a tax on greenhouse gas emissions produced from...
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Poverty on the rise in Lebanon amid deep economic crisis
[ad_1] Issued on: 30/03/2023 – 11:52 05:02 FOCUS © FRANCE 24 Lebanon has been drowning in a series of crises since 2019. The economic, banking...
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SOS diaspora: How Lebanese abroad help their country survive crisis
[ad_1] Issued on: 03/03/2023 – 13:34Modified: 03/03/2023 – 13:45 As their country sinks deeper into a financial crisis, more Lebanese people depend on money sent by...
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Rising poverty and hunger in Lebanon: The fight against malnutrition for low-income families
[ad_1] Issued on: 22/02/2023 – 12:45 Protesters smashed windows of banks in the Lebanese capital Beirut this past week as the currency hit a new low...
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‘They should be treated like human beings’
[ad_1] Our Observer, Kwajo Tweneboa, lived in appalling conditions in a London council house for years, along with his dying father and two sisters. But...
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Iraq’s Basra under pressure from rural exodus due to desertification
[ad_1] Issued on: 17/11/2022 – 15:14Modified: 17/11/2022 – 15:19 05:11 FOCUS © FRANCE 24 Repeated droughts experienced by Iraq for the past three years are accentuating the...
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Fleeing Lebanon to escape poverty: At least 100 die in migrant shipwreck
[ad_1] Issued on: 05/10/2022 – 15:03 Three years into Lebanon’s devastating financial collapse, some 80 percent of the population is now living below the poverty...
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Poverty pushing Afghan families to sell young girls into marriage
[ad_1] Issued on: 14/08/2022 – 17:19 August 15 marks one year since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. Since then the economy has spiralled into...
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World’s 10 richest men doubled their wealth during pandemic, Oxfam reports
[ad_1] Issued on: 17/01/2022 – 06:11 The world’s 10 wealthiest men doubled their fortunes during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic as poverty...
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‘This is not a life’: The displaced Syrians selling trash to survive
[ad_1] Issued on: 29/12/2021 – 17:28Modified: 29/12/2021 – 17:30 At a vast landfill on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Raqqa, once the Islamic...
