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Sudan's Hemedti Says Open to Russian Naval Base Accord

The deputy head of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, said his country had no problem with Russia or any other country establishing a naval base on its Red Sea coast, provided that it doesn't threaten national security. The General was speaking on arrival in Khartoum…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 3, 2022

Israel, US Forces Hold Joint Military Drill over Red Sea

Israeli and US air forces concluded their joint drills over the Red Sea to improve their capabilities in confronting and shooting down drones. The Israeli Army Radio (Galei Tzaha) reported that the Israeli Air Force and its US counterpart had recently carried out air maneuvers over the Red Sea. The…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 3, 2022

Hemedti Says Sudan Should Be Open to Naval Base Accord with Russia, or Others

Sudan's deputy head of state said on Wednesday his country had no problem with Russia or any other country opening a naval base on its Red Sea coast, provided it posed no threat to national security. General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commonly known as Hemedti, deputy head of Sudan's sovereign council,…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 2, 2022

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Hemedti says Sudan should be open to naval base accord with Russia, or others

Sudan's deputy head of state said on Wednesday his country had no problem with Russia or any other country opening a naval base on its Red Sea coast, provided it posed no threat to national security.

Reuters · Mar 2, 2022

Greenpeace Suggests Floating Barriers to Mitigate Expected Catastrophe Off Yemen’s Coast

An environmental organization has called on the United Nations and the international community to act swiftly to prevent an environmental catastrophe as a result of the possible explosion of the floating storage and offloading unit (FSO) SAFER off the coast of Yemen. Without a swift resolution, an explosion or leak…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 25, 2022

ACWA Power-led Consortium Reaches Financial Close for $1.302 Billion Red Sea Project

A consortium led by ACWA Power has reached financial close for the $1.302 billion Red Sea multi-utilities project in Saudi Arabia. ACWA Power, in consortium with China’s SPIC Huanghe Hydropower Development Company and Saudi Tabreed Cooling Company, reached financial close for the senior debt facilities for the project.

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 24, 2022

US, Egypt Launch Group to Prepare for COP27 Climate Summit

The United States and Egypt on Monday launched a joint working group to prepare for the next climate change summit in November, the American envoy for climate issues said. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry said the group is focused on the United Nations' COP27 conference in Egypt's Red…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 21, 2022

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Arab Coalition Destroys Explosives-Laden Houthi Boat in Red Sea

The Saudi-led Arab coalition said on Friday it had destroyed a small boat launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militias in the south of the Red Sea that was loaded with explosives, Saudi state television reported on Friday. The coalition added that the boat had departed Yemen's main Red Sea port…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 18, 2022

Saudi-led coalition destroys explosives-laden Houthi boat in Red Sea -state TV

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-aligned Houthi forces in Yemen said it had destroyed a small Houthi boat in the south of the Red Sea that was loaded with explosives, Saudi state television reported on Friday.

Reuters · Feb 18, 2022

OPEC Head Sees 'No Immediate Solution' to High Oil Prices

There is no "immediate solution" to high oil prices, Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua, president of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), said on Wednesday. The oil-producing countries' capacity to increase crude supply is curtailed by a lack of investment in the industry, said Itoua, who is also Congo’s minister…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 17, 2022

UN Says Agreement in Principle on Yemen Tanker Oil Transfer

An agreement has been reached in principle on a UN-coordinated proposal that would transfer more than 1 million barrels of crude oil from a tanker that has been moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen since the 1980s to another ship, the UN humanitarian chief said Tuesday. Martin Griffiths told…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 16, 2022

Suez Canal Expansion to Increase Two-Way Section by 10km

Works are under way to expand the two-way section of the Suez canal to 82 km (51 miles) from 72 km, the chairman of the authority managing the Egyptian waterway said on Tuesday. Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie told a news conference that it would be too expensive to…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 15, 2022

Group warns of potential catastrophe on old tanker off Yemen

A leading environmental group is warning of a potential major oil leak or explosion on an aging oil tanker moored off of Yemen’s Red Sea coast

The Independent UK · Jan 27, 2022

Yemen PM: Iran Uses Yemen as Base for Attacking Neighbors

Yemen’s prime minister on Tuesday accused the Houthi militia of allowing Iran to use the war-torn country as a base for attacking other states, the official news agency SABA reported. Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed told British Ambassador to Yemen Richard Oppenheim that the Houthis have shunned peace efforts to end the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 26, 2022

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Reuters · Jan 25, 2022

Yemen's internet service returns after four-day outage following air strike

Internet services were largely restored in Yemen on Tuesday, residents said, after a four-day outage following air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition on the Red Sea city of Hodeidah, which damaged telecoms infrastructure.

Reuters · Jan 23, 2022

Yemenis struggle without internet for third day after air strikes

Most of Yemen faced a third day without internet on Sunday after air strikes on the Red Sea city of Hodeidah, the main landing point for the country's undersea web connection, damaged its telecoms infrastructure.

Reuters · Jan 19, 2022

Yemeni family lives in abandoned shop as war, hunger drags on

Ismail Hassan, a Yemeni father of ten, houses his family in an abandoned shop and scavenges recyclable items from rubbish bins to feed them.

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