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Sultan of Oman signs key agreements with Spain
10 November 2025
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Stories under this heading cover the Gulf and the Red Sea regions, including the Arabian Peninsula, Iran and the countries bordering the Red Sea.
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UN Secretary-General calls for end to war in Sudan that is ‘spiralling out of control’
6 November 2025
The United Nations Secretary-General has warned that the war in Sudan is “spiralling out of control” after a paramilitary force seized the besieged and famine-stricken Darfur city of el-Fasher. Speaking in Qatar during the opening of the World Summit for Social Development on 4th November, Antonio Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire in the two-year conflict that has become one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
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Sudan's military under increasing international pressure to reverse coup
4 November 2021
Several countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and Britain, called in a joint statement for the restoration of Sudan’s civilian-led transitional government and reverse the military coup that happened two weeks ago.
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UN accuses all parties in Ethiopia of committing humanitarian abuses
3 November 2021
The United Nations condemned the atrocities committed in the conflict over Tigray and accused all parties of committing humanitarian abuses. However, the report is also a subject of doubt due to the rare collaboration between the UN and the Ethiopian rights commission and the lack of alternative investigations.
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El Sisi calls for "a binding deal' with Ethiopia over GERD crisis
26 October 2021
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi expressed Egypt's desire to reach a "binding, balanced agreement [...] without further delay" with Ethiopia, to end the long-lasting dispute on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
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Protesters resist Sudan's coup
25 October 2021
Sudan’s military seized power Monday, dissolving the transitional government hours after troops arrested the prime minister. Thousands of people flooded into the streets to protest the coup which undermines efforts towards a democratic government.
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Kuwait plans to pardon dissidents
25 October 2021
Kuwait’s emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah has initiated an amnesty process to pardon political dissidents and critics as part of wider political reforms in the country. The amnesty decision is expected to include the self-exiled parliamentarians who fled imprisonment after taking part in the 2011 storming of the parliament over alleged corruption and mismanagement by the government.
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Ethiopian military airstrikes hit Tigray’s capital, Mekelle
20 October 2021
On Monday (18 October), the Ethiopian military launched airstrikes on the capital of the Tigray region that left three dead children. the airstrikes mark a serious new escalation in the conflict. The UN is still working out the details of the strikes.
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Sudan in crisis following calls for the army to stage a coup
18 October 2021
Anti-government demonstrators took to the streets of Khartoum for the second day running to demand the removal of Sudan's transitional joint civil-military Sovereign Council and demanding it be replaced by a total military rule.
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Saudi women discuss the value of sports at cafe-based community meetings
13 October 2021
Cafés in Medina, Saudi Arabia that traditionally are places for food and beverages are turning into spots where women hold meetings to raise awareness and exchange views on how to succeed athletically.