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Qatar's QC to build solar-powered desalination plant in Djibouti
Qatar Charity (QC) has laid the foundation stone for a solar-powered seawater desalination plant in Dalaf, Obock region, Djibouti, marking a major step toward sustainable development and improved access to clean water in the target area. This...

Qatar Charity to build solar-poweredseawater desalination plant in Djibouti
Tribune News Network Doha Qatar Charity (QC) has laid the foundation stone for a solar-powered seawater desalination plant in Dalaf, Obock region, Djibouti, marking a major step toward sustainable development and improved access to clean water in...

Qatar tops Arab world in engineering, technology: ARCIF scientific report
Tribune News Network doha The 2025 Arab Scientific Journals Impact and Citation Report (ARCIF), issued as its tenth annual report, confirmed the State of Qatar’s advancement in the field of engineering and technology in the Arab world, based on a...

QC to build solar-powered desalination plant in Djibouti
Qatar Charity (QC) has laid the foundation stone for a solar-powered seawater desalination plant in Dalaf, Obock region, Djibouti, marking a major step toward sustainable development and improved access to clean water in the target area. This...

Qatar tops Arab world in engineering, technology, 2025 ARCIF scientific report reveals
Amman: The 2025 Arab Scientific Journals Impact and Citation Report (ARCIF), issued as its tenth annual report, confirmed the State of Qatar's advancement in the field of engineering and technology within the Arab world, based on a comprehensive...

Arab Citation, Impact Factor for Scientific Journals launches report on Arab scientific publications
Ammon News - The Arab Citation and Impact Factor for Scientific Journals (ARCIF) launched its 10th annual report for 2025, which monitors the development of Arab scientific output by analyzing and reviewing more than 956,000 scientific papers...

World Food Forum 2025 Concludes With Renewed Global Commitment To Transform Agrifood Systems Through Solidarity, Science, And Investment
The 2025 edition of the World Food Forum (WFF) concluded today at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome. This year’s Forum included the celebration of a historic World Food Day marking FAO’s...

Tech fuels global weather governance
China has deepened its collaboration with the international community in meteorological governance during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), using artificial intelligence and early warning technologies to help developing countries improve...

Opinion – The US-China Tech Hegemony Contest: A Threat to the Neoliberal World Order
The competition between the US and China for global power has become one of the defining features of the world’s geopolitical landscape in the 21st century. While the power struggle is unfolding on multiple fronts including defence, economy, and...

Opinion: Unpacking The Shipping Global Carbon Tax Delay
A fragmented, multipolar approach to decarbonization might actually fit our fragmented, multipolar world better. By James Lightbourn — While there’s plenty of soul-searching underway among supporters of the world’s first proposed carbon tax, its...

Capital Cities and Foreign Legal Research
Recently, I was tasked with a particularly complicated legal research question which involved one of my favorite topics: capital cities. The information and analysis we needed was only available to us once we managed to see the pieces through the...

Evening Brief: Amazon Web Services Outage Cause Global Disruptions, Via Baltica Highway Opens, Iraq to Keep Small US Adviser Force
Top stories this Monday evening, October 20, 2025. Global Internet Disruptions Hit Major Platforms After Amazon Web Services Outage A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) early Monday disrupted major online platforms, including Snapchat,...
Djibouti successfully issues first Common Alerting Protocol warning
The National Meteorological Agency of Djibouti (ANM) successfully issued its first Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) warning in September through its new website. A CAP warning is a standardized format for exchanging all-hazard emergency alerts and...
Ethiopia-Djibouti railway launches 1st privately-financed expansion construction project
ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway Share Company (EDR) has launched the construction of a railway expansion project, connecting an industrial park on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to...

Chinese engineers vs US accountants: the real power struggle
In a neon-lit trading room in New York, screens pulse with tickers as traders, fueled by caffeine and ambition, celebrate profit margins measured in milliseconds. Value here is abstract and fleeting – a flickering stock price, quarterly guidance,...

New California Law Could Help Illuminate Middle Eastern Community Disparities
A state bill recently signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom aims to shine a spotlight on the hidden inequities felt in one of California’s most diverse communities – Middle East and North African residents. For Orange County – home to Little Arabia...
Global South Science Leaders Honor Excellence at Rio Conference
More than 300 leading scientists from over 60 countries gathered in Rio de Janeiro this week to celebrate developing world research achievements and chart the future of science in emerging economies, culminating in the announcement of prestigious...

Olusegun Obasanjo: Former Nigerian President who stuck with Raila to the end
Former president of Nigeria Oluṣẹgun Ọbasanjọ paying his last respects to his long time friend Raila Amolo Odinga on October 19, 2025 in Bondo, Siaya County. Audio By Vocalize Former president of Nigeria Oluṣẹgun Ọbasanjọ, a bosom friend of the...

Djibouti engages Visa, Tech5 for national digital wallet rollout
The Djiboutian government has taken a major step towards enhancing digital inclusion with a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with U.S. payments giant Visa for the development of national digital wallet. The Dibouti government authorities signed...

Libya expands digital payments; Djibouti launches e-wallet
Homepage > News > Business > Libya expands digital payments; Djibouti launches e-wallet Amid the push for digital payments in North Africa, fintech service provider Network International has signed a strategic partnership with Libya’s National...