Despite major foreign players in the telecommunications sector making large investments in Sub-Saharan Africa, this market populated by 1.1 billion inhabitants remains a minefield. As regulatory inconsistencies including political interference from government functionaries linger on as intractable bogeymen, creating a...
A recent discovery of significant natural gas reserves within the Turkish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Black Sea was the main topic of Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s speech on August 21. During a televised press conference from the Presidential...
Advisers to US President Donald Trump are pushing forward the idea of delisting Chinese companies from US stock exchanges unless they comply with American auditing procedures. Washington has been considering the measure since May when the Senate unanimously passed legislation...
The United Arab Emirates became the first Arab country to open a nuclear power plant last weekend, on August 1. It is the third regional power to do so after fellow Middle Eastern arch-rivals Israel and Iran. But unlike Israel,...
The COVID-19 crisis has killed over 686,000, including more than 153,700 in the United States. Alongside this tragic statistic another crisis is playing out: economic devastation, lost jobs and looming homelessness and poverty including in developed countries such as the...
The European Council has just finished the longest meeting that it has had since the Nice, France gathering in 2000 and agreed upon a €750 billion recovery package. The package consists of grants and loans to counter the economic impact...
The Chinese network supplier Huawei has been banned from the 5G network in Great Britain. The ban applies from the end of the year. Even parts that have already been installed must be removed. With the UK banning the Chinese...
So far, the EU summit in Brussels has not made any progress. Austria and the Netherlands continue to oppose the current COVID-19 aid proposal worth 750 billion. Particularly Austria’s Chancellor Kurz is not inclined to transform the European Union into...
It came as no surprise, and has certainly been anticipated in the pages of this publication, that the British government decided to prohibit telecom providers from buying new equipment for 5G networks from Huawei Technologies. It is undoubtedly a U-turn...
Lebanon’s economic problems are a byproduct of Washington’s maximum pressure campaign on Iran, and could in fact drive the the two Middle Eastern states closer together. Inaction from the US, derived from an unwillingness to support governments it views as...