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The normalisation plague is deadlier than the Covid-19 pandemic Tunisian protest against the the normalisation deals with Israel in Tunis, on 18 August 2020 [FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images] December 29, 2020 at 9:56 am The year 2020 is almost history, but its incidents and events are not only likely to continue, but also escalate. There are implications regionally and internationally. There is still no solution for the conflict in Libya, for example. Negotiations have stalled, despite the ceasefire, and coup leader Khalifa Haftar has threatened to wage a war against Turkey in Western Libya...

Luxembourg bank helped UAE's MBZ bypass US sanctions, attack Qatar, report reveals Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed in Berlin, Germany on 11 June 2019 [Sean Gallup/Getty Images] December 22, 2020 at 3:22 pm A report by Bloomberg News has uncovered further details of the sordid relationship between UAE Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed and the Luxembourg-based private bank, Banque Havilland. A trove of emails, documents, legal filings reviewed by the American news agency, and interviews with former insiders, revealed that services provided by Banque Havilland to Bin Zayed, bett...

UAE, Egypt say improvement in Saudi-Qatari relations 'not welcome' Well-informed sources have told the Khaleej Times that Cairo and Abu Dhabi "do not welcome" recent improvements in the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.  After the Egyptian presidency confirmed that President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed had discussed Saudi Arabia's reported steps towards reconciliation with Qatar, the sources said "it became clear that the United Arab Emirates and Cairo are not welcoming the Saudi-Qatari agreements", according to the news website, whic...

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the Gulf Cooperation Council's 40th Summit in Riyadh on December 10, 2019 [Handout via Reuters] As we approach the second anniversary of the state-sponsored assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia continues its retreat, losing direction and influence in the Gulf and Middle East regions. More than 50 years after the Saudi kingdom began its rise to regional and international prominence as the leading member of OPEC and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), it now finds itself on a path of steady decline. H...