The 21 billionaires in the Middle East and North Africa saw their wealth increase by nearly $10 billion since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, while 45 million more people in the region could be pushed to poverty as a result of the pandemic, a new Oxfam report has revealed.
The Jordanian authorities have detained two prominent media executives, a foreign journalist, and a former member of parliament, apparently in response to public criticism.
Jordan has begun to regularise the status of refugees living in towns and cities without permits, but revoked their eligibility for subsidised health care.
Syrian refugee families living in host communities in Jordan are increasingly struggling to meet their basic needs, including educating and protecting their children, UNICEF says.
Arab countries engaged in a dispute with Qatar have shut down media outlets with links to or considered sympathetic to the Qatari government, Human Rights Watch said today.
Video footage and satellite images showing makeshift grave sites and burial mounds offer a rare glimpse inside a desert no-man's land between Jordan and Syria where more than 75,000 refugees are stranded and virtually cut off from humanitarian aid, said Amnesty International today.