Israel’s year-long blockade on Gaza has led to high unemployment and inflation rates in the territory.
Just before the start of the new school year, many families are scrambling to buy basic items such as uniforms and notebooks for their children.
But as Ashraf Amritti reports, they are luxuries many Palestinians simply cannot afford.
Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN envoy who was killed in a suicide attack on the world body’s Baghdad office in 2003,
earned praise and respect as a peace-maker and humanitarian.
Born in Brazil, one of those he left behind is his 90-year old mother Gilda who recently spoke to Al Jazeera.
Hundreds of Brazilians have given up the ‘American dream’ and returned home to re-invest their dollars in the local economy.
Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo reports.
From the start of the fighting between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia, there’s been disagreement over the number of people killed, who killed them and whose side they were on.
Al Jazeera’s Neave Barker reports on the propaganda "war of numbers" that has being going on througout the conflict.
Human rights groups have warned that some chilren in Nigeria have been branded as witches or evil spirits and are at risk of abuse, or may even be killed, as a result.
Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports from Akwa Ibom, in southern Nigeria on some of the children who have been cast out by their families.