Middle East & North Africa

04 Apr 2023; MEMO: A Syrian baby was reunited with her parents on Saturday, 54 days after being rescued from the rubble in quake-hit southern Turkiye.

Three-month-old Sima received treatment at a hospital in the Hatay province after earthquakes struck the country on 6 February. She was then shifted to a hospital in Mersin.

The baby and the parents were brought together in Mersin province thanks to a DNA test that proved their ties.

04 Apr 2023; MEMO: A professor of dentistry at Egypt University for Science and Technology has been arrested and forcibly disappeared from his home.

An anonymous source told Madr Masr that three security officers went to Ahmed El-Tabbakh's home in Sheikh Zayed City in Greater Cairo on 22 February, searched his house and confiscated his personal belongings.

04 Apr 2023; MEMO: A proposed Israeli-funded internet cable project aims to connect Gulf states with the occupation state after "gaining traction" in Saudi Arabia, according to a report yesterday by Middle East Eye (MEE).

04 Apr 2023; MEMO: A number of websites belonging to major Israeli universities came under cyber-attack on Tuesday, according to local media, Anadolu News Agency reports.

The attack targeted the websites of Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Haifa University, Weizmann Institute of Science, Open University of Israel and Reichman University, The Jerusalem Post reported.

04 Apr 2023; MEMO: Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) announced on Tuesday that oil exports through Turkiye's Ceyhan pipeline would resume later in the day, following a pause of more than a week caused by a long-running international arbitration case between Iraq and Turkiye, Anadolu News Agency reports.

Head of KRG Foreign Media Affairs, Lawk Ghafuri, said on Twitter that oil exportation through Ceyhan would resume today.

04 Apr 2023; MEMO: Two civilians were killed early Tuesday after an Israeli attack targeted the capital, Damascus, for the third time in less than a week, according to Syria's official news agency, SANA.

"At 00:15 a.m. on Tuesday, the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack with bursts of missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some points in the vicinity of Damascus and the southern region," SANA quoted a military source as saying.

04 Apr 2023; MEMO: Dozens of Tunisians broke their fast together yesterday in front of the women's prison in Manouba Governorate while protesting in support of the arrested activist Shaima Issa, a member of the opposition's National Salvation Front.

According to the correspondent from Anadolu news agency, Issa's family and members of the families of other political prisoners participated in the action to condemn the arbitrary detentions.

04 Apr 2023; MEMO: Israel's strategic position has worsened over the past several months due to the judicial overhaul plan proposed by the Premier, warned the Israeli Army Intelligence Directorate's Research Division.

04 Apr 2023; MEMO: The International Energy Agency (IEA) said yesterday that the oil production cuts announced by the OPEC+ group over the weekend could increase the "strains" in the market and push oil prices higher amid "inflationary pressures" that are "hurting vulnerable consumers … in emerging and developing economies."

04 Apr 2023; MEMO: Some 41.8 tonnes of gold were mined in Sudan last year, worth 150.9 billion Sudanese pounds ($2.5 billion)., the government said yesterday.

The data came in a statement issued by the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company affiliated with the Ministry of Minerals. It said that "last year's production recorded 41.8 tonnes." No figures were released for 2021.