Kuwait

Kuwait ( (listen); Arabic: الكويت‎ al-Kuwait, Gulf Arabic pronunciation: [ɪl‿ɪkweːt] or [lɪkweːt]), officially the State of Kuwait (Arabic: دولة الكويت‎ Dawlat al-Kuwait), is a country in Western Asia. Situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, it borders Iraq to the north and Saudi Arabia to the south. As of 2016, Kuwait has a population of 4.5 million people: 1.3 million are Kuwaitis and 3.2 million are expatriates. Expatriates account for approximately 70% of the population.Oil reserves were discovered in commercial quantities in 1938. In 1946, crude oil was exported for the first …

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World Bank Group · 17 July 2024 English

This report includes a special focus chapter focused on the dynamics of the Moroccan private sector. It is based on the results of an analysis jointly conducted with the Moroccan …

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World Bank Group · 16 July 2024 English

Economic growth has recovered. The Moroccan economy has shown resilience in the face of various challenges, including a slowdown in the global economy, an inflation shock, and the Al Haouz …

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World Bank Group · 16 July 2024 English

Submarine cables enable international connectivity and are essential for high-speed internet access. This paper tests their potential to improve the affordability of internet access by supporting a price drop through …

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World Bank Group · 15 July 2024 English

This Low-Income Countries Debt Sustainability Analysis (LIC-DSA) provides an update of the December 2023 LICDSA. The updated LIC-DSA incorporates three new elements:(i) updated borrowing assumptions that incorporate IDA20's moratorium on …

Creditors including the World Bank, IMF, AfDB, IFAD, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia have already completed relevant 0.0 Iraq 201.9 5.2 1.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Kuwait Fund and Central Bank 125.3 3.2 1.1 0.0 0.0 2.7


CSE: Centre for Science and Environment · 10 July 2024 English

• At the end of the year, the importer will declare the emissions of products imported and surrender an equivalent number of certificates to the authorities. [...] The UNFCCC defines …

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Amnesty International · 27 June 2024 English

including the right to freedom of expression,” said Devin Kenney, Amnesty International’s Researcher on Kuwait.“Kuwaiti authorities must immediately end this chilling wave of repression. No one should face prosecution

DONATE NOW ENGLISH NEWS June 27, 2024 Kuwait: Authorities must end wave of repression against critics Devin Kenney, Amnesty International’s Researcher on Kuwait. “Kuwaiti authorities must immediately end this public money and mentioned the historical fact that Kuwait had been attacked from Saudi territory in 1920 the trial court ordered that he be deported from Kuwait upon release from prison, because he has a Kuwaiti Uganda: An interview with activist Jaqueline Kasha Kuwait: Authorities must end wave of repression against


Amnesty International · 27 June 2024 English

Ahead of the final decision on the extradition case of Belarusian activist Andrei Gnyot, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “In light of the …

Uganda: An interview with activist Jaqueline Kasha Kuwait: Authorities must end wave of repression against


Amnesty International · 27 June 2024 English

From Mali to Guinea to Senegal, demonstrations are all too often brutally, and even lethally, put down. And yet Amnesty International emphasizes that violence by the forces of law and …

Uganda: An interview with activist Jaqueline Kasha Kuwait: Authorities must end wave of repression against


Amnesty International · 27 June 2024 English

On 26 June Egypt’s Emergency State Security Criminal Court (ESSC) sentenced protester Mahmoud Hussein to three years in prison for wearing an anti-torture T-Shirt. He was arrested following the court …

Uganda: An interview with activist Jaqueline Kasha Kuwait: Authorities must end wave of repression against


Amnesty International · 27 June 2024 English

Reacting to the decision of the Trial Chamber X of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to convict Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz for some of the war crimes and crimes …

Uganda: An interview with activist Jaqueline Kasha Kuwait: Authorities must end wave of repression against


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