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While many chose anonymity, Ahmed Mansoor Ali Abdullah Al-Abd Al-Shehi argued that, as a proud Emirati who simply wanted to help his nation develop, he had no reason to hide his identity. “It’s because I care for my country that I feel these issues need to be discussed,”

Christie’s to auction one of the world’s largest pearls, Shuaa Capital on Tunisian asset freeze list, Government purchases Blue City debt, Rise in credit default swap trade

Recent unrest in the region has not had a significant direct impact on the UAE, despite it being one of the least representative local polities. Thus, the federation formed in 1971 by the seven emirates of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Ajman, Fujairah, Ras Al-Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm Al- Quwain, remains one of the region’s most stable systems.

Major Nigerian political player James Onanefe Ibori was released from a Dubai prison. Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani is being investigated by Oxford University. Qatar is expected to nominate former GCC secretary general Abdelrahman Al-Attiyah as the League of Arab States’ secretary general. Qatar’s newspapers speak out

More than 130 artists, curators and writers are boycotting the $800m Guggenheim Museum being built on Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island, demanding that the Guggenheim Foundation and its Abu Dhabi partner, the Tourism Development and Investment Company, protect the rights of building workers

Manama’s crackdown on opposition members combined with the intervention of military forces from Saudi Arabia and police forces from the UAE has left Bahrain’s opposition considerably reduced space to demonstrate. However, opposition members remain as resolute as before to bring about change

The UAE’s National Election Committee (NEC) has announced that elections for the Federal National Council will take place on 24 September. Campaigning will run from 4 to 21 September, while candidate registration will take place over four days from 14 August and the final list announced on 28 August

The UAE will invest $1.6bn to improve infrastructure in the less developed northern emirates, state media said on 2 March. President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan decided to expand water and electricity networks after seeing living conditions on a tour of the UAE.

The Abu Dhabi government-owned International Petroleum Investment Company (Ipic) has offered to acquire from France’s Total the entire share capital it does not already own in Spain’s Compañía Española de Petróleos (Cepsa).

Manama has witnessed Jasmine Revolution-inspired demonstrations calling for political reform. The fervour of opposition has spread to many Gulf states, where aged leaders are being challenged by their youthful populations

The involvement of Gulf states in funding a security team in the Puntland region shows that pirates, radical Islamists and warlords are a serious regional problem, and that oil interests may also be at stake

Large numbers of defence suppliers have signalled their long-term commitment to supporting United Arab Emirates’ plans to develop an industrial manufacturing base by signing new long-term agreements based on new offset policy guidelines, state news agency WAM reported on 9 February.

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Reports from Oman that an Emirati spy ring was operating in the Sultanate cast bilateral relations between Gulf neighbours in an unusually negative light. Analysts have expounded a range of theories to explain the affair, from an Emirati royal keen to lead an Oman-UAE confederation to envy of Muscat’s budding relationships with international powers

A $3bn deal to generate conventional and renewable power in Libya and export it to Europe is the latest project to capture the imagination of Abu Dhabi’s financial and business community