NABLUS: An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the West Bank early this year has killed thousands of livestock, pushing Palestinian farmers already living under occupation to the brink of bankruptcy.

RABAT: Morocco on Sunday began welcoming an influx of its citizens living in Europe after the pandemic led to a halt in what has been called one of the world’s biggest cross-continental migrations.
The last such effort in the summer of 2019 saw 3.3 million people and more than three-quarters of a million vehicles cross the Gibraltar Strait.
The North African country is just 14 km from the coast of Spain, which has announced it will also put in place special measures for Moroccans from June 15 for two months.

KHARTOUM: Noureddine Jaber, a musician with a unique part-guitar, part-tamboura instrument, is giving voice to Sudan’s long-marginalized eastern communities through a new album.
Hailing from the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, Jaber belongs to the Beja people, a group of nomadic herders and breeders with unique languages, culture, food and music.
They have borne the weight of disenfranchisement, especially under President Omar Bashir who was ousted in 2019.
But the title of his first album, due out later in June, conveys a different message: “Beja Power.”

CAIRO: Yemen’s warring parties resumed talks Sunday on reopening roads in Taiz and other provinces, the United Nations said, after they agreed to renew a nationwide cease-fire.
The UN mission to Yemen said delegations from the internationally recognized government and the Iran-backed Houthis began their second round of direct discussion in the Jordanian capital of Amman.
The mission did not provide further details.

JEDDAH:  At least 19 civilians, including three children, have been killed in Yemen over the past two months, despite a nationwide cease- fire, a UN official has said.

The truce was the first tangible ebb in fighting in the past six years of the conflict. On Thursday, Yemen’s warring parties decided to renew the truce for another two months.