Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki is believed to be acting on behalf of Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahayan (aka MBZ) the Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates and key ally of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (aka MBS)...
On 27 March the day after a delegation of European ambassadors in Libya flew to Benghazi to petition Haftar to give the Ghadames conference a chance he flew to Riyadh for talks with King Salman and his son Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud felt snubbed when he was barred from seeing Bouteflika – 'even for 30 seconds' as Saudi officials put it – during his December regional tour...
The deal follows President Cyril Ramaphosa's meeting with King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh in July when a Saudi trade and investment package of at least $10 billion for South Africa was announced...
The day after President Ramaphosa met Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh South Africa's Minister of Defence Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula travelled to the UAE to meet Mohammed bin Ahmed Minister of State for Defence Affairs to discuss further deals...
Just as Trump is relying on Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman Kenyatta has positioned himself to be the White House's 'Africa guy'...
On 18 May Abiy jetted off to Riyadh where he emerged from a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (aka MBS) with news that Mohamed Al Amoudi the Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire who controls the MIDROC Group would soon be released (AC Vol 59 No 9 Who wants to see a billionaire...
Six months after his detention – and de facto disappearance – in Riyadh in Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's crackdown on corruption the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has suspended the licence of Al Amoudi's gold-mining company Mohammed International Development & Research Organisation Companies (MIDROC) to export gold alloy to Switzerland...
Some of the magnates caught up in Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's anti-corruption drive have been transferred to prison pending a conventional legal process but it isn't known if Al Amoudi is one of them...
On 12 July Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Saudi Armed Forces Lieutenant-General Fayyadh bin Hamed Al-Ruwaili delivered a message to President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh from Saudi Defence Minister Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman concerning a defence and security partnership between the two countries...
