The steady flow of prosecutions in Omani courts relating to corruption cases has dominated headlines in the sultanate. A renewed clampdown on graft has led to the sentencing of high-profile individuals – such as the chief executive of state-owned...
On 27 March, Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz Al-Saud appointed his half-brother, Prince Miqrin Bin Abdelaziz, as deputy crown prince, in a royal decree that may have answered short-term uncertainties about the much-debated Saudi succession, but...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Working Group on Bribery released its Phase 3 report on South Africa in mid-March. The report evaluates and makes recommendations on implementation and enforcement of the...
The EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund, which pools the resources of the European Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB), the financial institutions of individual European Union states, and the African Development Bank, is considering...
A strongly worded resolution against attempts to illegally export oil from Libya passed by the United Nations Security Council on 19 March was a further major blow to the rebel federalist organisation led by former Petroleum Facilities Guard...
A court in the UAE sentenced two Emiratis, both of them members of Islamist group Al-Islah, to five years in prison and a fine of Dh500,000 ($136,000) on 11 March, for criticising the state crackdown on Islamists. Khalifa Rabia, a 35-year-old...
The Shura council has urged the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Nazaha) to make public photographs and names of officials found guilty of corruption, and to conduct swift trials, Saudi media have reported. “The Shura agreed that Nazaha must...
Muscat’s Court of First Instance delivered more verdicts on 2 March in the string of corruption cases going through the Oman courts. The former managing director of Galfar Engineering & Contracting, Mohammed Ali, who had already been...
As Iraq readies itself for elections just six weeks away, there is still no improvement in the security situation. At the time of writing, more than 250 people had been killed in March, according to a tally by the French news agency AFP. On 9...
An Ankara-based engineering, procurement and construction contractor, which in 2013 filed a dispute against Oman under a bilateral investment treaty and is seeking some $182m in damages, has said it will wait another few weeks to hear from Muscat...
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