Amir of Kuwait – a “health setback”
Summary: Kuwaiti Amir taken ill, no details. Kuwait keeping out of regional disputes.
Summary: Kuwaiti Amir taken ill, no details. Kuwait keeping out of regional disputes.
Summary: Kuwaiti Amir taken ill, no details. Kuwait keeping out of regional disputes.
Summary: some quarter of a million Bidoons (residents without citizenship) in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE face discrimination. Moves for reform in Kuwait. Some given fictional Comorian nationality.
Summary: annual Arab League summit the usual muddle, given some purpose by the need to badmouth US policy.
Summary: small and poor, the Comoros are in a migration dispute with France, are involved in shady trade in passports for Kuwaiti residents and others, and side with Saudi Arabia and the UAE against Iran and Qatar (guess why!)
Summary: the summit a flop. Most leaders were absent, those who attended mostly demandeurs.
Summary: Stateless residents of Kuwait to be offered Comoros passports; a sticking plaster to cover a sore affecting 100,000 people.
Summary: Muhammad bin Salman announces a new alliance of 34 states. Little detail.
Summary: Little recent violence has been reported in Egypt. Standard & Poor’s has raised its sovereign credit rating for Egypt to B-/B from CCC+/C.