Author: Steven Sahiounie

Gold prices ticked up on Monday, as investors assessed diminishing bets of U.S. interest rate cuts ahead of a key inflation report due later in the week.

Pichai was addressing a media briefing after a meeting of economic ministers chaired by the prime minister

Ghana, the West African cocoa, gold and oil producer has been restructuring its debts as it tries to emerge from its worst economic crisis in a generation

Egypt have to move the prices of bread, an essential commodity that is heavily subsidised in one of the world’s biggest wheat importers

S&P expects a return to a sustainable fiscal path by 2027. The stable outlook signifies confidence in the government’s reform plans to strengthen its non-oil revenue base

The meeting comes within the framework of the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, which is aimed at promoting sustainable development and prosperity

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today denounced the Israeli bombing that targeted a camp for displaced people in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the killing and injuring of scores of Palestinian civilians. The Ministry further refuted the occupation’s claims of the existence of safe zones in the Gaza Strip. The Ministry called on the countries supporting Israel to awaken their conscience, morals and law in the face of the genocidal war to which the Palestinian people are exposed. It also strongly condemned the heinous massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces last night, following the targeting of…

Senior diplomats from Iran and Oman talked about a range of bilateral and regional affairs at a meeting in Tehran, including the latest developments in Gaza. Speaking at a joint press conference with Foreign Minister of Oman Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, held in Tehran on Monday, the caretaker foreign minister of Iran praised the Sultanate of Oman for dispatching a delegation for the funeral of late Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian. Oman once again proved to be a cordial and lasting friend of Iran, Ali Baqeri said. Highlighting the special position of neighbors in the foreign policy of…

Israeli colonists today set fire to agricultural fields owned by Palestinians in the town of Duma, south of Nablus. The head of the village council in Duma, Suleiman Dawabsha, said that a group of Israeli colonists set fire to privately-owned agricultural land located at the western part of the town, causing olive trees and other crops to catch fire. In a related context, colonists set large swathes of land on fire in the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem. The head of the village council in Husan, Jamal Sabateen, said scores of Israeli colonists from the illegal colonial outpost of Beitar Illit set…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Libya has not recovered from the US-NATO attack in 2011, the so-called ‘Arab Spring’, which burnt throughout the Middle East and North Africa like a wildfire having been lit in Washington, DC under the US President Obama administration. There is a ceasefire between the two sides headquartered in Tripoli and Benghazi, but a permanent peace with economic prosperity remains elusive.  Russia and the US are both in Libya, but have very different goals and methods of operation. On one side, there is a UN brokered Government of National Unity (GNU), and on the other…