Der Spiegel über eine neue Studie zur Lage von Flüchtlingen in Libyen:

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip took to the streets on Saturday for the third successive day. (...)

In response to a video of Hamas forces suppressing demonstrations, a close confidant of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas tweeted his outrage.

“This is not the Israeli occupation forces!!”Fatah Central Committee member Hussein al-Sheikh said. “It is the Hamas gangs that are terrorizing and suppressing the hungry in the Gaza Strip.” (...)

Die iranische Menschenrechtlerin und Rechtsanwältin Nasrin Sotoudeh ist zu insgesamt 38 Jahren Haft verurteilt worden. Dies teilte ihr Ehemann Reza Khandan heute Vormittag auf seiner Facebook-Seite mit.

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has postponed the 18 April presidential elections and said he will not seek a fifth term in office.

President Bouteflika's candidacy had provoked mass protests across Algeria over the past few weeks.

He has led Algeria for 20 years but has been rarely seen in public since he suffered a stroke in 2013.

No new date for the election was set. A cabinet reshuffle will happen soon, a statement in Mr Bouteflika's name said.

Roya Hakayan schreibt in Foreign Policy ueber den Weltfrauentag im Iran:

Bis zuletzt kontrollierte der Islamische Staat sein schrumpfendes Kalifat mit eiserner Hand:

On Friday, the United Nations published its 2019 Humanitarian Needs Overview for Syria, which warned that over 2 million boys and girls in the embattled nation are currently not attending school.

The report underlines the scale of humanitarian needs in the war-torn country suffering from an ongoing civil war since 2011.

The overview is a reminder that the crisis is far from over for millions of people in Syria, who have lived through eight years of crisis, said the UN chief's spokesperson Stephane Dujarric during a press conference.

A spokesman for Germany’s interior ministry (BMI) wrote The Jerusalem Post: “The BMI does not comment on concrete prohibition considerations in general; this applies regardless of whether there is reason to do so in individual cases.”

Den Gipfer der arabischen Liga mit der EU kommentiert Andreas Backhaus in der Zeit: