90,000 child refugees could die in Somalia

Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra reports from the refugee camps of Yemen on the people fleeing the fighting in Somalia.
Last year more than 100,000 people made the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen in order to flee the fighting in Somalia - according to the figures given by the ‘Yemen Observer’.
This year 32,000 [...]

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Arab states hit by rising oil prices

Oil has risen to yet another record high - just shy of $121 dollars a barrel.
One knock on effect is that some Arab countries are removing state subsidies, which are costing billions of dollars a year.
Jordan removed fuel subsidies in February and, since then, oil prices have shot up by 82 per cent.
Syria too is [...]

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