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UAE, an oasis for business and partying, faces war  The Washington Post

Sudan's RSF waged starvation campaign in siege of el-Fasher Oscar Rickett on Tue, 03/10/2026 - 12:12 New report from Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab finds deliberate targeting of North Darfur agricultural communities Satellite imagery shows destruction to farming communities outside el-Fasher, North Darfur, by the Rapid Support Forces, between March and June 2024 (Yale HRL/Vantor) Off Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) waged a campaign of starvation against the people of el-Fasher, razing dozens of farming villages and devastating crop production around the city, according to a major new report corroborating UN allegations of genocide.  The report, produced by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) with Nasa’s Harvest programme, used satellite imagery and other data to identify 41 agricultural communities attacked between March and June 2024, the first months of a siege that went on for more than 500 days. Over the following months, two-thirds of those communities showed “no visible pattern of life”, suggesting residents had been displaced or killed. During the same period, the area of land being farmed declined by more than 80 percent. Forensic analysis of the patterns of damage to the buildings based on remote sensing data showed that the communities were attacked deliberately, Yale’s HRL said. Ten of the 41 communities attacked were razed more than once, the report found, with at least six communities targeted for burning three or more times. One of these was razed to the ground at least seven times.  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Twenty-eight of the communities appear to have no visible pattern of life. These findings, the report said, suggest the attacks displaced or killed residents of the farming communities, which led to decreased food production in the region.  The communities around el-Fasher razed by the RSF (Yale HRL) The Yale HRL report follows one last month from the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan, which found that the RSF’s takeover of el-Fasher bore all the “hallmarks of genocide”, including the destruction of the means of survival.  The UN’s report found that the RSF had “deliberately imposed conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of non-Arab communities, in particular the Zaghawa and the Fur”, two Black African groups that have been targeted by the RSF throughout the war.  Yale’s HRL said that the intentional razing of agricultural communities corroborated these findings. The report is the first study of its kind to use remotely sensed data to assess food insecurity in conflict settings to corroborate an alleged campaign of intentional starvation. UAE backing for RSF in Darfur El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in western Sudan, was finally taken from the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) by the RSF in October 2025, following a lengthy siege that saw the paramilitary construct a network of earth walls around the city, trapping hundreds of thousands of residents inside a “kill box”. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); While the United Arab Emirates continues to deny the allegations, Middle East Eye has reported extensively on its support for the RSF, citing evidence including satellite imagery, flight logs, weapons serial numbers and multiple sources. Thermal scarring showing the razed communities (Yale HRL/Vantor) Once the RSF stormed into el-Fasher, its fighters raped, executed and extorted residents in large numbers, according to extensive interviews conducted by Middle East Eye and later reports from the UN and Yale’s HRL. Civilians fleeing the city were also apprehended by the RSF and taken to makeshift detention centres, where they had blood taken from them. The war in Sudan, between the RSF and SAF, began in April 2023. More than 11 million people are currently displaced from their homes as a result of the war.  While the UAE and its regional allies, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Chad and eastern Libyan general Khalifa Haftar, back the RSF, the SAF is backed by Egypt, Turkey and now Saudi Arabia, which is embroiled in an ongoing feud with its neighbour and erstwhile ally, the UAE.  Sudan war News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

At a market in Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabat, pensioner Shemshat Kurbanova always used to pick the "juiciest" Iranian fruit -- but 10 days of war across the border have sent prices soaring and she is now worried how to get by. The Middle East war has tumbled global markets, with the effects being felt almost immediately in some of Tehran's closest neighbours. Iran last week banned all goods and agricultural exports, triggering economic pressure on secretive Turkmenistan and the wider Central Asian region, where Tehran had a growing economic footprint in recent years.

Iran War Live Updates: Pete Hegseth Says ‘We Will Not Relent’ Until Iran Is Defeated  WSJ

Strait of Hormuz Closure Triggers 360% Surge in Ocean Freight Diversions  PR Newswire

US vs Iran on Strait of Hormuz: Trump's '20 times harder’ strike warning gets ‘peace or suffering’ retort | World News  Hindustan Times

US, Israel seem to have 'no common plan', German chancellor says German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has voiced concern that the US and Israel appear to have "no common plan" for ending the war against Iran. "The United States and Israel have been waging war against Iran for over a week. We share many of these goals, but with each day of the war, more questions arise," Merz said on Tuesday. "We are particularly concerned that there is apparently no common plan for how this war can be brought to a swift and convincing end."

‘We could still be suffering the ripple effect of this for weeks, if not months’.

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Kharg island holds 94 per cent of Iran’s oil exports and could choke off the country’s economy for years

Iran war shocks continue to ripple through the global economy  Euronews.com

Hegseth indicates Trump will decide when Iran war is complete  NBC News

Oil and gas are not just fuel, they are raw materials for thousands of products, including fertilisers used in farming.

Latest polling shows the war in Iran is already unpopular at a historic scale  MS NOW

TEHRAN, Mar. 10 (MNA) – The IRGC announced the launch of the 34th wave of Operation ‘True Promise-4’ against US and Zionist regime positions on Tuesday afternoon.

Oil prices spiked after shipments through the Strait of Hormuz were disrupted amid the Iran war.

Iraq seeks new energy export routes after Hormuz Strait disruption: Report Iraqi authorities are exploring alternative routes to export the country's oil after transit through the Strait of Hormuz was disrupted by the war in the region, an oil ministry spokesperson told AFP on Tuesday. "Much like other countries in the region, oil production and marketing have been severely impacted, leaving the government no choice but to seek alternative [export routes]," Saheb Bazoun said, adding that the country has several oil shipments stuck at sea.

The conflict in Iran has caused massive disruption to global air travel

Trump says Iran war is 'very complete, pretty much' as US and Israel continue to pound Tehran  Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Climate change fears grip Nuuk as winter temperatures reach record highs.