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Algeria suspends diplomatic relations with ‘dwarf state’ UAE Submitted by Elis Gjevori on Thu, 09/10/2026 - 13:17 Algiers cuts ties with Abu Dhabi and accuses the Gulf state of destabilising the wider region Composite MEE illustration of Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune (L) and a handout picture taken and provided by the UAE Royal Court on 12 August 2026 (AFP) Off Algeria announced on Thursday that it would sever all diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates after “exhausting all means to preserve bilateral relations”. In a statement, the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had warned the UAE over its “hostile actions” and had expended significant effort in “drawing the attention of the Emirati side and warning it of the grave consequences that may result from its regrettable and unjustified behavior”. “Despite these numerous warnings, the United Arab Emirates has persisted in these actions, which have reached a point where they can no longer be considered acceptable or tolerable within the framework of relations between two sovereign states, or remain unanswered,” the statement added. The Algerian foreign ministry said it had informed the UAE ambassador of the decision and had given him 48 hours to comply. Tensions between the two countries have increased in recent years as the UAE has played an increasingly destabilising role across the Middle East. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); In a headline in 2023, the Algerian newspaper Le Soir d’Algerie called the UAE a “pyromaniac state” and condemned the state’s “harmful role” around Algeria’s borders. UAE threat to Algeria In recent years, the UAE has funded authoritarian leaders and breakaway groups across the Sahel and North Africa. In Libya, the UAE has backed military leader Khalifa Haftar in the east of the country, destabilising not only Libya but also Chad, Sudan and Niger. The UAE has also used Libya as a base to provide support for Sudan's Rapid Support Forces militia, which has been accused of committing genocide in the country's civil war. In April 2024, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said in comments widely perceived as aimed at the UAE: “Wherever there is conflict, the money of this state [the Emirates] is there - in Mali, Libya, and Sudan." (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Tebboune has also disparagingly called the UAE the “dwarf state” without naming it, saying: “I will not name it. They wanted to interfere in matters in which we prevented great powers from interfering. 'President Tebboune had spent the better part of a year railing against a 'small state' bent on stirring trouble; today he just stopped pretending it was anonymous' - Andreas Krieg, associate professor, King’s College London “This has been coming for a long time, and to my mind the significance is less the break itself than what it tells us about how Algeria now reads the UAE,” Andreas Krieg, associate professor of security studies at King’s College London, told Middle East Eye. “Algiers has effectively concluded that Abu Dhabi's regional playbook - cultivating what I call an 'axis of secessionists,' from Haftar in Libya to the RSF in Sudan to the southern movement in Yemen - was being turned toward Algeria itself,” said Krieg, reacting to the decision. Algeria has spent the best part of this year signalling its displeasure with the UAE. On 7 February, Algeria began cancelling its bilateral air-services agreement with the UAE. While Algiers did not provide a formal explanation, most analysts understood that the decision reflected the UAE’s continuing interventions in Algeria’s backyard. “The sharpest fear is Emirati contact with the Kabylie autonomy movement, the MAK, which Algiers treats as a terrorist organisation and as a red line running straight through national unity,” said Krieg. When the UAE announced its withdrawal from Opec earlier this year, Tebboune publicly dismissed the decision as a “non-event”. Tebboune said Saudi Arabia was Opec’s main pillar and declared, regarding the UAE, that “the book is closed”. “The foreign ministry's wording is the tell,” said Krieg. “It says the decision came 'after exhausting all means' to save the relationship, and it pointedly names no single trigger. That's deliberate: this wasn't one incident but an accumulation - the suspected outreach to separatists, the UAE's military footprint in Libya and the Sahel, and Abu Dhabi's backing of Morocco on Western Sahara, which for Algeria is the most sensitive file of all,” he said. “President Tebboune had spent the better part of a year railing against a 'small state' bent on stirring trouble; today he just stopped pretending it was anonymous,” Krieg added. Inside Algeria News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

Igor Tulchinsky: Sponsor of British Museum Bayeux Tapestry exhibition funded community centre in West Bank settlement Submitted by Daniel Hilton on Wed, 09/09/2026 - 13:46 Billionaire paid for 'therapy yurt' in Efrat treating Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza, despite being constructed on occupied Palestinian land Igor Tulchinsky, right, and Efrat Mayor Dovi Shefler, left, unveil the 'therapy yurt' at the Mondlak Center on 13 November 2025 Off The sponsor of the British Museum’s Bayeux Tapestry exhibition has funded a community centre in Efrat, an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank that is now under UK sanctions. Igor Tulchinsky, a Belarus-born billionaire who has backed the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition in a deal estimated to be worth £5m ($6.75m), unveiled a “therapy yurt” in Efrat’s Mondlak Center in November 2025 alongside the settlement’s mayor, Dovi Shefler. The yurt is part of a “community resilience centre” serving Gush Etzion, a bloc of illegal Israeli settlements 12km southeast of Jerusalem, and Tulchinsky was identified as its primary sponsor. Tulchinsky is reported to have dedicated the facility to “Israel's brave warriors and their families” during a visit to the settlement in November 2025, according to a post on the Efrat Development Foundation’s Instagram page. Speaking at the opening, Tulchinsky described the yurt as “Israel’s inner Iron Dome”. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Efrat is built on land seized from four Palestinian villages, home to around 12,000 Israeli settlers and considered the capital of Gush Etzion, a sprawling collection of settlements that is expanding towards nearby Bethlehem. The Mondlak Center is an arm of the Efrat Development Foundation, a nonprofit organisation that describes itself as “dedicated to advancing Efrat’s social, cultural, and physical development”. According to the Efrat Development Foundation’s website, there are three levels of partnership for donors and sponsors, with the top “Vision Partner” level costing over $50,000 and providing the opportunity for “strategic planning”. The Efrat Development Foundation also advertises that it gives “pioneer family support in Givat HaEitam”, a reference to settlers who are establishing a highly controversial hilltop development known as “E-2” that peace activists warn will sever Bethlehem from the southern West Bank and ghettoise the city. The nature and extent of Tulchinsky's support, whether financial or otherwise, for the community centre is unclear, and Middle East Eye received no response to requests for comment directed to his investment firm, WorldQuant. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); When approached for comment by MEE, the Efrat Development Foundation confirmed Tulchinsky was a donor but said he did so through a separate organisation that it declined to name. An image of Tulchinsky attending the opening of the therapy yurt appears on the fundraising page of the foundation’s website. Sanctions The British Museum has not responded to MEE’s requests for comment about Tulchinsky’s sponsorship of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, which opened to the public on Thursday. But revelations about his visit to Efrat and his support for the community come just two days after British Foreign Secretary Ed Milliband announced a raft of sanctions against Israeli settlements. He accused settlers of “ethnic cleansing” Palestinians from the West Bank and said that the occupation is “unlawful because of Israel's entrenchment of its control, its intention to extend permanent sovereignty and its expansionist agenda via illegal settlements". (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); "We will take action against specific companies and individuals who provide services such as construction, infrastructure financing or real estate for settlement expansion,” he said in parliament. "So to those who finance or facilitate illegal settlements, let me say this: You will face the full force of UK sanctions. Settlements are illegal. They should not be promoted in our country." Igor Tulchinsky, pictured behind King Charles and other dignitaries, at the British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition launch (The Trustees of the British Museum) Shefler, Efrat’s mayor standing with Tulchinsky as the yurt was unveiled last year, has a history of making strong statements backing Israeli annexation of the West Bank. The council he oversees has breached even Israeli military regulations by expanding into territory administered by the Palestinian Authority, and he has lauded the way Efrat’s eastward expansion severely impedes chances of establishing a viable Palestinian state. “We are physically blocking the connection between Bethlehem and Hebron,” he said in an interview in April. “Whoever is plotting to establish a terrorist state here - we are simply cutting off their dream through construction.” Efrat is a distinctly far-right, religious-nationalist community. In Israel’s last election, in 2022, 48 percent of its votes went to Religious Zionism and Jewish Power, two far-right parties led by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. The UK sanctioned Smotrich and Ben Gvir in June 2025 for “repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities”. Smotrich appeared in a video alongside Shefler in May, where the minister is seen praising the mayor’s work to expand Efrat and the two urge construction of settlements in the Gaza Strip. 'A great living standard' It is estimated that around 50-60 percent of Efrat’s residents are native English speakers. In April, Declassified UK revealed that an Israeli organisation had been caught on camera offering to help British citizens move to Efrat. “You’re next to the Arabs; you’ll hear their mosques,” a member of the organisation, Shivat Zion, was recorded saying. “But apart from this, it’s a great living standard.” The Mondlak Center was named after Moshe and Lina Mondlak, residents of Gush Etzion who emigrated from the United Kingdom, and provides mental health services. According to a report in the Jerusalem News Syndicate, the yurt that Tulchinsky unveiled in November has space for three therapy rooms and an area outside for yoga, mindfulness and breathing workshops. Exclusive: Igor Tulchinsky, British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry sponsor, backs Israeli defence tech fund Read More » Demand for its services from soldiers and civilians reportedly surged during Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Tulchinsky dedicated the therapy yurt to “Israel’s heroes”, speaking about a “war after the war being fought by therapists, volunteers and by soldiers and their families who are learning to breathe again”. On Wednesday, Middle East Eye revealed that Tulchinsky has a defence tech-focused venture capital fund based in Israel headed by a recently retired army commander who has promoted the use of remote-controlled vehicles in Gaza. These vehicles have been described by one rights group as a “direct tool for committing genocide” and implicated in the destruction of entire neighbourhoods of Gaza and Lebanon, including priceless cultural heritage. In an interview with the Jerusalem Post in March, Tulchinsky said he had provided financial support to the Israeli army since the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks and the start of the Gaza war, and said he visited the country regularly. Artists for Palestine UK, a network of artists and cultural workers, called the British Museum’s decision to partner with Tulchinsky “outrageous”. Israel's genocide in Gaza Sponsor of British Museum Bayeux Tapestry exhibition funded community centre in West Bank settlement News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

In this edition, French filmmaker and journalist Mélanie Nunes speaks to  FRANCE 24 about her investigative report, "Afghanistan : les soignantes de l'ombre" or ‘the unsung female carers’. It follows women in the country as they try to get the heath care they need, as well as following health care providers themselves as they try to offer their services. Nunes says that the women who participated in the short-form documentary did so because “nobody cares about what they think" in their own country. "Afghanistan : les soignantes de l'ombre" recently came out on the Arté television channel.

Iran-aligned Houthi militants seized control of Yemen's port city of Mocha on Thursday, military sources said, posing a further threat to global energy supplies. Four Yemeni government military sources said the Houthis had gained further leverage over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the southern outlet of the Red Sea and one of the world's most important shipping routes, and were launching attacks on the strategic ​islands of Hanish.

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Chinese electric bike imports to Africa have surged, particularly in North Africa, indicating a diverse approach to electric vehicle investments across the continent. The transition to electric vehicles is seen as a way to reduce fuel consumption and air pollution.

The Kenyan President's order to close immigrant-owned small businesses sparked panic in the country. But now, as it seeks to backtrack from the concern, Kenya has warned foreign workers they have 90 days to regularise their status.

The flame for the Dakar Youth Olympics was lit in Athens on Thursday for the first Olympic competition ever staged in Africa.