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  1. Sudan’s Army Turns To Russia For Weapons In Exchange For Naval ‘Supply Point’

    ...stored diplomatic relations with Sudan (under the SAF), having severed ties under President Bashir in 2016, when Khartoum sided with Riyadh following an attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran, and later deployed troops to join the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen (MEES, 20 January 2017...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2024

  2. Saudi Arabia Looks To Expand Iraq Footprint

    ...aken Iran’s dominance in Baghdad (MEES, 1 September 2017). As Bruce Riedel, a former CIA analyst and Middle East expert on the US National Security Council told MEES in 2018, Saudi Arabia’s evolving relationship with Iraq is “perhaps the most enlightened part of current Saudi foreign policy” (ME...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 29 May 2020

  3. Gulf Monarchies Look To Score In Soft Power Premier League

    ...ch invested over $1bn to date in a bid to win football’s biggest club prize, Europe’s Champion’s League. Adding spice to the contest is that Abu Dhabi alongside Saudi Arabia has been the key instigator of an embargo on Qatar since 2017. At least, to paraphrase George Orwell, football is a war minus th...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2019

  4. Mena Remittances Up 10% In 2017

    ...Remittances are a crucial lifeline to the region’s cash-strapped oil importing economies. Thanks largely to Cairo’s floatation of the Egyptian Pound in late 2016, Mena remittance inflows topped $56bn in 2017 after having fallen year-on-year since 2014. Egyptian inflows hit $20bn ac...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 01 Jun 2018

  5. Lebanon Faces Looming US Financial Sanctions Over Hizbollah Ties

    ...falls Lebanon and its banking system,” Mr Torbey added. Like the previous legislation, the new draft entitled the “Hizballah International Financing Prevention Amendment Act of 2017” will target all political groups in Lebanon suspected to have a strong link with Hizbollah. For the first time the dr...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 02 Jun 2017