Author: Steven Sahiounie

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel this weekend to push forward a Gaza ceasefire deal as the United States tries to bridge the gaps in talks in the region, the State Department said.Blinken will leave Saturday and seek to “conclude the agreement for a ceasefire and release of hostages and detainees through the bridging proposal” presented Friday during talks in Doha by the United States, a State Department statement said.President Joe Biden earlier Friday said that “we are closer than we have ever been” to a ceasefire in the 10-month-old Gaza war after two days of…

Sokoto State government in partnership with USAID Nigeria State Accountability, Transparency and Effectiveness (State2State) Activity, to develop a set of revenue codes to ensure transparency in the state revenue generations.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has expressed its unwavering commitment to advancing and prospering the Nigerian capital market and the economy at large, in line with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

Abdullah Mohammed Al Muwaiji, Chairman of the Ajman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), launched the Ajman Chamber’s 2024 – 2030 Strategy

Doha: Qatar’s credit growth is estimated to accelerate from 2.8 percent y-o-y in 2023 to 4 percent by the end of this year.

The Egyptian private sector’s contribution to the country’s total investments increased to 37% during the fiscal year (FY) 2023/2024

Riyadh: Lucid Group, majority-owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, has announced the opening of its second studio in the Kingdom, further expanding its presence.  

Russia expects to continue productive interaction with Bangladesh to strengthen bilateral cooperation in all directions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a telegram to Bangladesh’s new Foreign Minister Md Touhid Hossain, the text of which was posted on the Telegram channel of the Russian embassy in the republic. “Dear Mr. Md Touhid Hossain, I was pleased to hear about your appointment as Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. Russian-Bangladeshi relations draw on a solid foundation of friendship that has traditionally linked our peoples,” the telegram reads. “We look forward to continuing productive…

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi, on Thursday, discussed with United Arab Emirates (UAE) Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the serious repercussions of the incursions and violations committed by Israeli extremists into the Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif, last Tuesday. In a phone conversation, the two ministers denounced these assaults, particularly the incursion by the radical racist minister Itamar Ben-Gvir into Al-Aqsa Mosque. They saw it as a risky escalation that would only serve to intensify the conflict at a time when the region is already experiencing…

A spokesman for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, Majed al-Ansari, says the meeting between mediators to help end the war in Gaza is still ongoing and will resume on Friday, Qatari state media reports. “Dr al-Ansari stated, in a statement to the Qatar News Agency [QNA], that the efforts of the mediators from the State of Qatar, the Arab Republic of Egypt and the United States of America are ongoing, and that the mediators are resolute in their commitment to move forward in their endeavours to reach a ceasefire in the Strip that would facilitate the release of hostages and enable…