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Palestinian employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), wearing surgical masks and gloves, divide food aid rations and place them onto transport vehicles. (dpa)

Making sure the poor do not go hungry

Gulf

A nurse uses a swab to test the passenger of a car for COVID-19 at a drive-through verification centre in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi, April 2. (AFP)

Gulf nations introduce more measures as infection numbers rise

Mohammed Alkhereiji

Gulf

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson sits in the study of 10 Downing Street, on a video conference call to other G20 leaders during the coronavirus outbreak in London, Britain March 26. (Reuters)

G20 coronavirus plan addresses poorer countries' debt problems

tunisia

Tunisian women work on the production of medical masks in a factory in the central city of Kairouan. (AFP)

Lockdowns do not come easy but Arab governments have few options

MENA

Libyan children take part in a remote learning class at their home in the Libyan capital, Tripoli on March 22. (AFP)

Out of school, Arab pupils turn to internet and TV

MENA

Energy with potential. Wind turbines at a wind farm in the southwestern Moroccan city of Tarfaya . (AFP)

Wind energy is a ‘key technology’ with benefits for MENA

MENA

A girl and a boy use a giant interactive display screen at the Qatar National Library in the capital Doha on May 19, 2019. (AFP)

Dealing with school disruptions in MENA

MENA

Stemming the tide. Sanitary workers disinfect the desks and chairs of the Lebanese Parliament in Beirut amid the spread of coronavirus in the country. (AFP)

Virus outbreak disrupts region's way of life, upends politics as usual

MENA

Workers wearing protective gear spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus outbreak in the departure terminal at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, March 5. (AP)

Disconnected politicians across the region are ll-equipped to deal with the virus crisis