Category: Middle East

CEO Rob Shuter says the orderly process will start in Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen BL PREMIUM 06 August 2020 – 23:18 Mudiwa Gavaza As part of a deal-making spree to unload problematic assets and boost shareholder value, MTN, Africa’s biggest mobile phone group by subscribers, unveiled plans to sell its businesses in the Middle East […]

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. SINGAPORE, Aug 08, 2020 /PR Newswire Africa via COMTEX/ — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Guardant Health’s liquid biopsy, Guardant360(R) CDx, for tumor mutation profiling in patients across all solid cancers. For Guardant Health Asia, Middle East and […]

We all have our soft spots, nestling in some recess of our heart, that can fuel serious hankering from afar. In my own case, when I lived in London in the early nineties, the thing I missed most from here was a portion of musabbaha at my then-favorite eatery, Abu Hassan in Jaffa. For those […]

Public fury over this week’s massive explosion in Beirut took a new turn Saturday night as protesters stormed government institutions and clashed for hours with security forces, who responded with heavy volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets. Read more: Lebanon officials long warned of Beirut port’s chemical explosives: documents One police officer was killed […]

Reprinted from responsiblestatecraft.org The Quincy Institute’s “New Paradigm for the Middle East” calling for a definitive end to the disastrous policy the United States has pursued in the region for nearly two decades offers the first coherent analysis of what is wrong with that policy and the first conceptual framework for a fundamentally different approach. […]

Manama: The 2021 Dakar Rally will see teams and competitors return to Saudi Arabia for the second consecutive year. Among them, will be an ambitious new team; Bahrain Raid Xtreme (BRX) and as the national team of neighbouring Bahrain, BRX is eager to showcase the region to the rest of the world. Last year’s edition […]

Overall deal activity in the Middle East and African metals and mining industry increased by 16.7% in the second quarter, data and analytics company GlobalData’s deals database shows. Twenty-eight deals worth $1.44-billion were announced for the region during the quarter, against the last four-quarter average of 24 deals. Advertisement Of all the deal types, mergers […]

MTN is set to gradually retreat from its Middle Eastern businesses, said CEO Rob Shuter on a conference call yesterday. Instead, MTN will focus its efforts back on its home continent of Africa.   MTN’s time in the Middle East, where it operates in Iran, Yemen, and Syria has been a troubled experience over the […]