The Ethiopian government and World Bank Group (WBG) are holding high-level talks about the first round of the Scaling Solar programme, in which Saudi Arabia’s Acwa Power was awarded two 125MW projects – Gad and Dicheto – on 11 September after...
A sale took place in Switzerland on 29 September of 25 supercars seized by Swiss authorities from vice-president Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, known as Teodorín, the son of the president. The cars were auctioned with no reserve on behalf of the...
On 2 October, Noble Energy, Delek Drilling and their partners in the offshore Leviathan and Tamar fields announced that they had restructured the quantities of gas they are committed to sell to Egypt’s Dolphinus Holdings, an entity run by a trio...
An announcement from Eni saying chief executive Claudio Descalzi met Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Félix Tshisekedi on 13 September in Kinshasa gave little away, saying only that they discussed forest conservation initiatives and...
Federal Vice President and Prime Minister, and Dubai Ruler of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum interrupted a bike ride on 25 September to watch footage of the Emirati astronaut Major Hazza Al-Mansouri heading into space, the first person...
King Tupou VI of Tonga visited Abu Dhabi in late September to open his country’s first embassy in the UAE, located in Etihad Towers. The limited extent of opportunities with the Pacific island nation was clear by the fact that the UAE only sent...
Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi’s government is facing the most serious threat to its position iafter several days of violent unrest in Baghdad and cities across the south. As GSN went to press, more than 100 people had been killed and several...
US President Donald Trump’s lack of enthusiasm for backing up his heated anti-Iranian rhetoric with meaningful military resources, even in the wake of last month’s attack on the Abqaiq oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, appears to be a key...
Lebanese Prime Minster Saad Hariri was due to head from Beirut to Dubai on 7 October to attend an investment conference, as Gulf Co-operation Council states mull fresh requests for bailouts from a crisis-hit economy which is running perilously...
On 28 September, US Central Command briefly moved the command and control of its air operations from their normal location at Al-Udeid in Qatar to Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. The Combined Air and Space Operations Centre (CAOC) at Al-...
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