Saudi AgriTech Firm Gets $10 Million Venture Capital for Salt Water Project

Red Sea Farms, a Saudi Arabian AgTech business has received a $10 million venture capital investment from a group of leading Saudi and UAE investors. It is for growing hydroponically using primarily salt water offers mayor opportunities for the greenhouse industry. Red Sea Farms’ technology however enables it to do so.  The investment is based […]

Saudi Arabia Rolls Out Fresh COVID-19 Conditions for Pilgrims

Ministry of Haj and Umrah has announced five mechanisms and regulations for pilgrims coming from outside Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah, local media reported. The announcement is coming as the United Arab Emirate (UAE) proved its mettle time and again. In recent months, the UAE not only managed to safely reopen its borders but implemented one of […]

Saudi Arabia Bans Released Women Rights Activist from Travel

A global rights group, Human Rights Watch says Saudi authorities have released a prominent women’s rights activist, Loujain al-Hathloul, from prison on Wednesday. She is however, banned from travel and has a suspended sentence, which allows the authorities to return her to prison at any time for any perceived criminal activity.Late last December, following a rushed trial, Saudi […]

Why Saudi Arabia is Supporting Agric Projects Abroad

The main reason why Saudi Arabia’s Agricultural Development Fund is supporting Saudi investments abroad has filtered into the open. It is strictly on the condition that at least 50 percent of the project’s crops will be exported to the Kingdom. It is expected that the credit facility will cover up to 60 percent of the […]

Saudi’s Labour Reform Excites UN Migration Agency

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is agog with joy following the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Labour Reform which aims at granting foreign workers more freedom in job mobility and lessening restrictions on exit and re-entry into the Kingdom. These reforms will directly reduce the vulnerability of foreign workers to exploitation and abuse as well as enhance […]

Saudi Arabia Lands In Image Whitewashing Scandal

The Saudi government is currently battling to shake off its image from a damaging rights abuses stigma. To this end, the government has spent billions of dollars hosting major image-boosting entertainment, cultural, and sporting events as a deliberate strategy to deflect from the country’s image as a pervasive human rights violator. Obviously not impressed, Human Rights […]

Oil price rise muted in 2019 despite sanctions, supply cuts, Saudi attack

Oil prices rose more than 20 per cent this year but there were no sharp spikes and crude futures barely sniffed $70 a barrel despite attacks on the world’s biggest oil producer, sanctions that crippled crude exports of two OPEC members and gigantic supply cuts from big oil producing countries. The price gains in crude […]

Saudi sentences five to death, three to jail over Khashoggi murder

Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced five people to death and three more to jail over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year and said the killing was not premeditated, a verdict criticized by a U.N. investigator as a “mockery” of justice. The court dismissed charges against the remaining three of the 11 people […]

OPEC sees small 2020 oil deficit even before latest supply cut

OPEC on Wednesday pointed to a small deficit in the oil market next year due to restraint by Saudi Arabia even before the latest supply pact with other producers takes effect, suggesting a tighter market than previously thought. In a monthly report, OPEC said demand for its crude will average 29.58 million barrels per day […]

Kayan Mata. Is it really Jazz?

I first learned about Kayan Mata two or three years ago. Considering that l had lived virtually all of my life in the north, it came as a surprise to me that l never knew there was such a thing.  When translated literally, Kayan Mata means Women things. It is used by northern women to […]