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Maliki to Return as Iraqi PM?
...ndidate. Nouri al-Maliki has emerged as the frontrunner for Iraq’s premiership, potentially returning to a post he held between 2006 and 2014 (see table). Mr Maliki headed the country’s first permanent government after the 2003 US invasion and remains the only politician to have served two terms as prime mi...
Volume: 69Issue: 03Published at Fri, 16 Jan 2026 -
Oman At The Crossroads As New Sultan Takes The Reins
...owing to a record $39.4bn in 2014. At the time, all was well and good: $100/B+ oil filled state coffers, covering additional spending and keeping Oman’s public debt in check (see chart). But once implemented, government handouts are politically difficult to stop. And when oil prices crashed in la...
Volume: 63Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2020 -
‘The New Tunisia’: A Work In Progress
...wn in recent days. Revenue from tourism has collapsed as instability has increased post-revolution. Foreign investment has nosedived. As a net energy importer, Tunisia should in theory have benefited from the fall in oil and gas prices from late 2014. However the collapse in the country’s own pr...
Volume: 61Issue: 03Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2018 -
Libya: IS Attacks Continue, As Does Uncertainty Over Unity Government
...nflicts, a peace deal has been signed between Jebel Nafusa and Zintan in the west of Libya after 15 months of fighting. Zintani forces, affiliated to the official government in Baida (which in turn is affiliated with the HOR in nearby Tobruk), seized the town in October 2014, causing more than 4,000 people to...
Volume: 59Issue: 03Published at Fri, 22 Jan 2016 -
Saudi-UAE: The Start Of A Beautiful Relationship?
...2014 came to a close. Galvanized by the triple threats of the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power in Egypt, albeit briefly, the stalemate in Syria against their common foe Bashar al-Asad and the subsequent takeover of a third of Iraq by the brutal Islamic State (IS) in June last year, Saudi Arabia an...
Volume: 58Issue: 03Published at Fri, 16 Jan 2015 -
Donors Pledge $2.4Bn Syrian Aid
...raise some $6.5bn for 2014 in order to provide medical care, food water and shelter for both refugees having fled Syria and civilians within Syria. The Secretary General noted that when the donors met a year ago 4mn Syrians needed aid, and that a year later the world is facing a regional and a hu...
Volume: 57Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2014