Category: Business

Coffee could be a unifying force in Yemen and act as an important mediation tool which brings people from separate parts of the political divide together, a leading Yemeni coffee exporter believes. Faris Sheibani the CEO of London-based Qima Coffee pointed out that everyone in Yemen from Sadaa in the north to Yafa in the south celebrates their coffee culture. “Coffee grows throughout the landscape of Yemen and can act as a unifying force,” Faris toldThe New Arab. “The flip side of that coin is that as you operate from different areas in Yemen you sometimes face pressure from the different grou…

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The negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme are in disorder. Representatives of Iran, the permanent five members of the UN Security Council, and Germany are engaged in busy diplomacy, attempting to resurrect a deal to restrain Iran’s development of nuclear weapons. The discussions, however, are frequently halted or suspended by stunts and pretend slights. Under former US president Donald Trump, the United States withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018, delivering a hefty blow to the future of the accord. Officials in the current American administration, including the presidential special repre…

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A year after migrants started crossing into the European Union from Belarus to Poland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is expected to visit the border area on Thursday to mark the completion of a new steel wall. On Friday, Polish authorities will also lift a state of emergency along the border that has blocked journalists, rights workers and others from witnessing a human rights crisis. At the very least, 20 migrants have died in the area’s freezing forests and bogs. As Poland opened its gates to millions of Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion, work was well underway to build the 5.5…

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