Saudi Arabia’s stock market is set for another bumper year of stock market listings with several sizeable initial public offerings (IPO) in the pipeline as investors look to allocate a pile of cash. After the then record $29.4 billion listing of oil giant Saudi
February 10, 2021 at 10:17 am
The phone call to the family lasted just one minute. It came 23 months after aid worker Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan had been arrested at the offices of the Red Crescent in Riyadh, where he worked co-ordinating rescue operations and emergency relief. He was held incommunicado despite numerous efforts by the family to speak with him and to see him. They were told repeatedly, He is still under investigation. No visitors and no phone calls allowed.
Then on 12 February last year, the phone rang at the family home. It was Abdulrahman. He couldn t say anything other than that he was being held in the notorious Al Ha ir Prison, a maximum-security centre for political prisoners just south of Riyadh. My family could tell from his tone that he didn t want to scare us, his sister Areej told me. He s always thinking about others, about protecting others.
Yemen’s long, bloody “civil war” which has essentially become a proxy war between Iran and Gulf Arabs is correctly seen as a humanitarian tragedy. Too many, however, including President Joe Biden, mistakenly think that solving the tragedy requires blaming the wrong side, effectively exonerating
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration designated, on Monday called for the consolidation of the Ghana-Saudi Arabia relations for the mutual benefit of their people.
She noted that Ghana had been keen in exploring avenues to expand the existing cordial relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including a visit by the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Madam Ayorkor Botchwey said this, when Mr Ahmed Kattan, Minister of State for African Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, paid a courtesy call on her in Accra.
The meeting formed part of Mr Kattan s three-day visit to Ghana, during which he would also hold a bilateral meeting with President Akufo-Addo.
Yemen’s long, bloody “civil war” which has essentially become a proxy war between Iran and Gulf Arabs is correctly seen as a humanitarian tragedy. Too many, however, including President Joe Biden, mistakenly think that solving the tragedy requires blaming the wrong side, effectively exonerating the real culprits and their surrogates. Biden said last week in his first presidential foreign .