
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that Gulf states will be at risk of their oil wealth vanishing in the next fourteen years if they fail to undertake further economic reforms. In a study released earlier this week, the IMF claimed that “at the current fiscal stance, the region’s ...

Three prominent international NGOs have boycotted meetings that Saudi Arabia is holding with civil society groups ahead of the annual Group of Twenty (G20) Summit, saying the Riyadh regime is trying to “whitewash its dire human rights record” by hosting such events. In a joint statement issued on Monday, human ...