20 April 2022; MEMO: A Chinese technology company has secured three oil and gas subsea cable supply projects with the United Arab Emirates, local UAE media reports.
According to the report, ZTT Submarine Cable & System has signed an agreement with UAE's National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) on three oil and gas subsea cable supply projects set to be delivered to the end-user, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC).
20 April 2022; MEMO: Children made up 26.9 per cent of Turkiye's population in 2021, down from 27.2 per cent in 2019, official figures showed today.
There were 22.74 million children in Turkiye in 2021, of an overall population of 84.7 million, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said.
"According to population projections, the proportion of child population was expected to be 26.6% in 2025, 25.6% in 2030, 23.3% in 2040, 20.4% in 2060 and 19% in 2080," it added.
20 April 2022; MEMO: Israel is beginning to impose temporal and spatial divisions of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the deputy director of the Islamic Awqaf in Occupied Jerusalem has warned.
The Palestinian Information Centre reported Sheikh Najeh Bakirat accusing the occupation of making efforts to impose its administrative control over Al-Aqsa Mosque and end Jordan's role as the custodian of the holy site.
20 April 2022; MEMO: The arrest and imprisonment of journalist Ahmed Al-Bahey has raised the number of reporters in Egypt's jails to 70, according to the Arab Observatory for Media Freedom.
Al-Bahey, a correspondent for the independent news website Masrawy, was arrested from his home at 6am on 16 April and accused of "inciting violence".
The prosecutor ordered that Al-Bahey be held on remand for four days.
20 April 2022; MEMO: Some 11,500 doctors resigned from government hospitals between 2019 and March 2022, according to a recent report issued by the General Syndicate of Egyptian doctors.
The report also stated that at the end of 2018, 212,835 doctors had a licence yet only 82,000, 38 per cent of the figure, were working in the government sector.
The rate of doctors in Egypt is 8.6 per 10,000 citizens compared to the global average which is 23 doctors per 10,000 citizens.
AMMAN, Apr 19 (NNN-PETRA) – Jordan yesterday summoned the Israeli charge d’affaires of the Israeli embassy in Amman, to protest against Israel’s operations in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said.
Jordan’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Haitham Abu Al-Foul, stressed the need to respect the right of worshippers to perform their prayers, without any restrictions, calling for ending all attempts to impose temporal and spatial division at the holy sites.
RAMALLAH, Apr 19 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday discussed the growing tension with Israel in East Jerusalem, during two separate phone conversations with King Abdullah II of Jordan and Russian President, Vladimir Putin.
Abbas exchanged views with King Abdullah over the situation in East Jerusalem, accusing the Israeli police forces of acting “brutally towards the safe worshippers, in flagrant violation of international law and the legal and historical status of the status quo in the holy city.”
ISTANBUL, April 19 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he told his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog on Tuesday that he had been "very upset" by Palestinians injured or killed in the West Bank and Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
In a tweet, Erdogan said the two had discussed the recent events caused by "some radical Israeli groups and security forces" in a phone call that comes amid efforts to normalise ties between the two countries.
BAGHDAD, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Iraq said on Tuesday that the Turkish military operation in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region is a threat to Iraq's national security and a violation of its sovereignty.
The latest Turkish military operation into the Iraqi frontier without coordinating with the Iraqi federal government is unacceptable, said a statement by the Presidency.
The pending security issues in the border areas could be resolved through further coordination between the two countries and the Iraqi sovereignty must be respected, it added.
ALGIERS, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, held a phone conversation on Monday, exchanging views over bilateral cooperation as well as a series of regional issues.
According to a statement from the Algerian Presidency, Tebboune and Putin discussed the forthcoming bilateral economic cooperation and pledged to further exchange high-level visits.
The two presidents also talked about the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and the escalating tensions between Palestine and Israel.
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