Tag: UAE



NATO’s Gulf States have had it easy for far too long, Declan Hayes writes.

The United Arab Emirates and Israel had hoped to extract strategic victories in Sudan, taking advantage of the fall of the nation’s former dictator and the descent into civil war. But newly released satellite images suggest that Tehran’s renewed ties with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) may be unraveling those ambitions.

The Gulf Cooperation Council countries are home for close to 31 million migrant workers in various sectors with the share of migrants many times exceeding that of natives.

Trade in Russian oil and gas is shifting from commodity trading hub Geneva to Dubai and Singapore, says anti-corruption expert Mark Pieth. But this is not the outcome of greater efforts to implement sanctions against Russia by Swiss supervisory authorities. Pieth explains why the economic fight against Moscow is fizzling out.