Middle EastNews
Donors meet in Cairo to discuss reconstruction financing
Delegations are discussing how pledges would be managed and monitored.
Omar Haddad
Middle East correspondent.
Middle EastNews
Shipping lines weigh a return to the Red Sea route
Insurers and carriers are reassessing the risk of the Suez passage after months of diversions around the Cape of Good Hope.
Middle EastAnalysis
Gulf states court Asian investors as oil revenues plateau
Sovereign funds and state companies are looking east for partners in industry, logistics and technology.
AfricaAnalysis
The Sahel’s military governments are building a confederation of their own
After leaving the regional bloc, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are trying to turn shared grievances into shared institutions.
Middle EastAnalysis
Iraq’s water crisis moves up the regional agenda
Shrinking rivers are turning upstream dam projects into a foreign-policy question.