Sudan President Omar Al-Bashir is taking steps unprecedented in his 30-year rule — the longest in Sudan's modern history — as world reactions vary between support for and opposition to the Khartoum regime.
On 8 March, as the world celebrated (...)
Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) spent last week touring Asia's three nuclear powers amid a lavish reception by Asian leaders and despite visible tensions amongst them. Bin Salman's tour was meant to convey that he was still an active (...)
Africa has been called “the continent of the future” and “the cursed continent” and both phrases reflect a facet of the truth. The continent possesses a cornucopia of riches that have long lured great powers.
Their rivalries sowed tensions and (...)
The Venezuela crisis is escalating rapidly as divides sharpen in public opinion worldwide between supporters of socialist President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido who, last month, declared himself acting president of the oil-rich (...)
Africa has been called “the continent of the future” and “the cursed continent” and both phrases reflect a facet of the truth. The continent possesses a cornucopia of riches that have long lured great powers. Their rivalries sowed tensions and (...)
Egypt's relationship with Africa dates back millennia. In the modern age, however, starting with the irrigation projects under Mohamed Ali in the early 19th century, Cairo increasingly focused on the Nile and its sources. This beginning laid the (...)
Egypt's relationship with Africa dates back millennia. In the modern age, however, starting with the irrigation projects under Mohamed Ali in the early 19th century, Cairo increasingly focused on the Nile and its sources.This beginning laid the (...)
The Venezuelan crisis has reached boiling point. Two political leaders have locked horns over the presidency of the country with the largest oil reserves in the world. One is backed by Washington, the other by the army. All possibilities are (...)
Attempting to overcome the toughest test in his three-decade rule, Sudan President Omar Al-Bashir flew to a number of Arab states, starting with Qatar and Egypt, to gather support for his regime, threatened amid protests in Sudan that have continued (...)
A surge in Boko Haram attacks in the northeast of Nigeria is threatening to throw preparations for presidential elections, slated for 16 February, into disarray, Haitham Nouri reports.
The terrorist group's violence is not the only challenge to (...)
Pope Francis left the UAE Tuesday after a landmark three-day visit – the pope's first to the Arabian Peninsula.
Before the pope's departure to Rome a holy mass was held at Zayed Sports City Stadium in the capital Abu Dhabi in the attendance of some (...)
Algerian President Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika has called for presidential elections to be held on 18 April in line with the country's constitution and elections law, putting to rest rumours among the Algerian public about their possible postponement.
The (...)
“We call on our supporters to gather at four different places in Khartoum and then begin a march on the presidential palace,” the Sudanese Professionals Association said in a statement last Saturday as protests across Sudan entered their fourth (...)
The great expectations that arose after the Stockholm Agreement on the Yemeni crisis adopted in Sweden in December have crumbled, and the country is again standing “on the edge of an abyss”, in the words of local observers.
The situation in Yemen (...)
“We call on our supporters to gather at four different places in Khartoum and then begin a march on the presidential palace,” the Sudanese Professionals Association said in a statement Saturday as protests across Sudan entered their fourth week.
The (...)
Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz pronounced a large package of decrees as 2018 drew to a close, ushering in sweeping changes in central and provincial government and institutions in the kingdom.
One of the most important was the appointment (...)
Sudan President Omar Al-Bashir “will not fall unless the army sides with protesters”, Heidar Ibrahim, Sudanese professor of political and social sciences, said in the wake of demonstrations sweeping across Sudan since 5 December.
The protests (...)
Sudan President Omar Al-Bashir “will not fall unless the army sides with protesters”, Heidar Ibrahim, Sudanese professor of political and social sciences, said in the wake of demonstrations sweeping across Sudan since 5 December.
The protests (...)
Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz pronounced a large package of decrees as 2018 drew to a close, ushering in sweeping changes in central and provincial government and institutions in the kingdom.
One of the most important was the appointment (...)
Yemen is “on the brink of famine”. It is the facing the “worst humanitarian crisis on the globe”. The UN and major international humanitarian relief organisations have sounded these alarms on numerous occasions during the past year. What brought (...)
The geopolitical situation in the Gulf at the turn of the 20th century was a far cry from what it is today. For one, there were no states, in the modern sense of the word (with institutions such as a government bureaucracy, an army, public (...)
It looks like Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir will not be leaving office at the end of his second term in 2020 as earlier promised. Members of his ruling party, the National Congress Party (NCP) are paving the way for perpetual rule.
Parties in the (...)
Bahraini authorities announced the results of last week's parliamentary and local council elections, despite calls by the opposition to boycott and government insistence there was high voter turnout. Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs, Religious (...)
The 11th extraordinary session of the African Union Summit concluded 18 November in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, the headquarters of the AU's secretariat, attended by many African leaders.
The summit's agenda focused on administrative and (...)
Western diplomatic efforts have not yet solved the mystery surrounding the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on 2 October, even after Riyadh admitted that the killing had been (...)
