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Articles by Amara Okonkwo
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News MENA Region — Who Decides What MENA Reads: Inside a Regional Wire Desk's Day
From the first alert of the morning to the last syndication feed at night, a small group of editors shapes what the region's news pages carry.
Amara Okonkwo
World
Six months on, Hormuz traffic still a fraction of normal
Tracking data show a handful of transits a day against roughly 85 in peacetime, despite the open-by-declaration status, keeping the world's most important chokepoint effectively closed to routine commerce.
Amara Okonkwo
World
Zelensky presses Washington for new Russia sanctions as war enters autumn
The Ukrainian president's call for immediate measures, highlighted in mid-September briefings, lands on a US capital absorbed by its own energy-inflated midterm campaign and managing the Iran war's sanctions architecture.
Amara Okonkwo
World
EIA sees Brent near $90 through the second half as supply slowly rebuilds
The US Energy Information Administration's latest Short-Term Energy Outlook forecasts Brent averaging around $90 a barrel in the second half of 2026, easing only as production rises and inventories rebuild into 2027.
Amara Okonkwo
World
General Assembly opens with the Iran war atop the agenda
The UN's annual session begins September 8 with a diplomatic season shaped by the strike pause, the strait's unresolved status and the region's reconstruction claims, six months after the Council could not fully condemn the war's opening.
Amara Okonkwo