Following the announcement earlier this year that around $1.6bn of the proceeds from the sale of the National Integrated Power Projects will be reinvested in the transmission network, minister of state for power Mohammed Wakil has urged...
The Somali government has turned to the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to resolve its maritime border dispute with Kenya. In its application, posted on the ICJ’s website on 28 August, Somali minister of foreign...
An international arbitration panel examining the failed deal between Crescent Petroleum and the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) to supply gas to the UAE has determined that the 25-year contract was valid and binding, and that NIOC has...
The accusation that UAE war planes flew sorties from Egyptian air bases in mid- to late August to bomb pro-Islamist militia forces in the Libyan capital of Tripoli fits a wider trend of speculation about Gulf states’ involvement in Libya’s slow-...
When leading human rights activist Nabeel Rajab travelled to the UK in late July for a holiday with his family, he was stopped at Heathrow airport for almost five hours, photographed, questioned and fingerprinted. The Rajab family had their...
The co-director of the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) Maryam Al-Khawaja was arrested on 29 August as she tried to enter Bahrain. Khawaja, a leading human rights activist who has dual Danish-Bahraini nationality, says she was trying to visit...
As the man now charged with halting Iraq’s implosion, Iraq’s prime minister designate, Haider Al-Abadi, who was nominated to succeed Nouri Al-Maliki in mid-August,evidently has a tough job on his hands; in his own words, posted to his Twitter...
The US Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on three men it says are terrorist financiers, all of whom are thought to be Kuwaitis, under Executive Order 13224 on 6 August. In a statement, the department said Kuwaiti nationals Shafi Sultan...
01/08/14
ICT can inspire a revolution in energy consumers’ behaviour The provision of electricity and access to clean energy remain beyond the grasp of hundreds of millions of sub-Saharan consumers, but Africa’s information and...
30/07/14
The three-year, slow-burning conflict in Bahrain remains a minor headache to most international governments, in a region full of thumping migraines. But as l’affaire Malinowksi reminded us this month, for all the West’s...
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