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18 Feb 19
Saudi Arabia has promised investment deals worth $20bn with Pakistan to boost its struggling economy.
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7 Feb 19
Saudi Arabia has set up a new office to monitor public spending, despite ending its official crackdown on corruption.
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30 Jan 19
Saudi Arabia has suspended 126 local government workers from various municipalities on corruption charges, the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs has said.
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19 Dec 18
The Saudi Arabian government has announced its biggest-ever budget, with a 7% spending increase next year, to boost economic growth.
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26 Oct 18
Saudi Arabia has agreed to a $6bn rescue package for Pakistan to it deal with debt problems.
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5 Sep 18
The exiled Yemeni government has pledged to raise the salaries of public sector employees after hundreds of people protested against the rising cost of living.
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20 Aug 18
Saudi Arabia has pledged $100m to back a US programme of support to parts of Syria that are no longer held by the Islamic state.
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4 May 18
The UK High Court is to hear a campaign group’s appeal against a judgement which allows the UK government to sell arms to Saudi Arabia.
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5 Apr 18
Donor countries have pledged more than $2bn in humanitarian aid in response to the “worst manmade humanitarian crisis” in Yemen, at a pledging event in Geneva on Tuesday.
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12 Mar 18
The UK and Saudi Arabia are to partner up to boost economic development and infrastructure in some of the world’s poorest drought and conflict-hit countries.
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12 Feb 18
Nations in the Arab world should cut their public sector pay bills and stop allocating jobs through cronyism if they want to grow economically, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine...
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31 Jan 18
Saudi Arabia has said the government will seize more than $100bn through its corruption crack-down, with more than 50 royals and businessmen arrested.
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19 Jan 18
Saudi Arabia will Yemen’s struggling economy with a $2bn transfer to its central bank following the Yemeni prime minister’s appeal for .
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20 Dec 17
The Saudi Arabia government has unveiled its 2018 budget, which it is hoping will boost spending to record levels in the country and drag the economy out of recession.
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15 Dec 17
Saudi Arabia’s king has approved a 72bn riyals ($19.2bn) programme to stimulate growth in his country’s private sector next year.
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21 Nov 17
The royals, ministers and businessmen detained as part of Saudi Arabia’s crack-down on corruption will get due process of law, Saudi’s United Nations ambassador has said.
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7 Nov 17
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince is leading a crack-down on corruption, which has led to the arrest of dozens of royal figures, ministers and businessmen.
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11 Oct 17
Saudi Arabia’s authorities have made progress in implementing its Vision 2030 project, with fiscal consolidation efforts “beginning to bear fruit”, the IMF has said.
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29 Sep 17
Saudi Arabia has raised $12.5bn from its third international bond sale this year to bridge a budget shortfall and weak oil prices.
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1 Nov 16
Saudi Arabia’s veteran finance minister Ibrahim al-Assaf has been sacked by the country’s King Salman after 20 years in the post.
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16 Sep 16
The UK government must urgently cease the sale of all weapons to Saudi Arabia until an independent inquiry can be conducted into reports that British-made munitions are being used against civilians...
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28 Jan 16
UK government ministers have insisted that arms sales to Saudi Arabia do not undermine international development objectives in Yemen despite charities telling MPs that the positions were incompatible...
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6 Jan 16
Civilians in Yemen continue to suffer a “terrible toll” as fighting continues into the new year following a short-lived ceasefire in late December, the United Nations has said.
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20 Nov 15
The ongoing war in Yemen has brought its education and health systems to the brink of collapse, a senior United Nations official has warned.
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25 Jun 15
A round-up of recent public finance stories from the Middle East & Africa you might have missed.