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Profile of Emir Sultan Bin Mohammed al-Qasimi

The Independent ran a series of interviews with Al-Saud family members in late February in an advertorial campaign to promote the $20m Saudi Cup horse race. GSN asks who was talking up the event and the background to the British newspaper’s partial Saudi ownership.

Sheikh Tahnoun Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (TBZ) has continued his deal-making spree, with a company linked to the UAE national security adviser taking a 7.4% stake in Abu Dhabi Ports Group (AD Ports), which listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange on 8 February.

Sheikh Mansour Ibrahim Ahmed Hamad Al-Mualla has been appointed as executive director of the emirate’s Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation

Sultan Haitham landed back in Muscat on 27 February, following a 19-day trip to the United Kingdom

Gulf States Newsletter (GSN) provides profiles of the children of Saudi Arabia's King Salman Bin Abdelaziz, including Crown Prince and prime minister Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS), his brothers Khalid and Turki, his half-brothers Fahd, Sultan, Ahmed, Abdelaziz, Faisal and Saud and his half-sister Hessa.

Recently appointed ambassador to Washington Prince Khalid Bin Salman, embarked on his first tour around the United States in late August. The first stop was Nellis Air Force Base, on the outskirts of Las Vegas, where he met Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) pilots participating in the Red Flag and Green Flag exercises. He went on to San Francisco to meet Silicon Valley firms, and to Dallas where he visited defence giant Lockheed Martin’s missiles and fire control site, in nearby Grand Prairie, to discuss its investments in Saudi Arabia.

The profile is quickly rising of Saudi ambassador to the US Prince Khalid Bin Salman. The increasingly prominent younger son of King Salman Bin Abdelaziz is the subject of considerable succession speculation, focusing on his possible appointment to deputy crown prince – a role which necessarily requires a candidate younger than the crown prince, his 32-year-old elder brother Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS).The deputy post has been vacant since MBS’s promotion in June 2017.

Attention is turning to the prospect that Saudi Arabia’s petroleum and mineral resources minister Ali Bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi, who turns 80 in September, might retire sooner rather than later – possibly by the end of 2015. Naimi, who joined Aramco in 1947, was seen as close to the late King Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz, who on several occasions is believed to have asked him to stay on, despite the industry veteran’s preference of retirement. King Salman Bin Abdelaziz has so far retained an official who is seen by commentators as the most influential non-royal in government, but elsewhere the incoming faction has shown a marked taste for making sweeping changes to the apparatus and personnel of government.

Princess Fahda Bint Saud Bin Abdelaziz and Princess Fahda Bint Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz were both in their 70s and died in mid-March

King Salman Bin Abdulaziz flew into Jeddah on 9 March, amid fresh speculation about his state of health. His son, Crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman followed a few days later

A Dubai-based company backed by a well-connected but relatively low-profile member of Dubai's ruling Al-Maktoum family has been signing deals across Africa to generate carbon credits – while generating some controversy in the process.

National security advisor Sheikh Tahnoun Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan’s wife Sheikha Khawla Bint Ahmed Khalifa Al-Suwaidi hosted an exhibition of the work of Dubai photographer and documentary film-maker Ali Bin Thalith Al-Humairi.

GSN profiles Abu Dhabi power-broker Sheikh Tahnoun Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (TBZ), a son of the late UAE President Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan from his marriage to Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Al-Ketbi.

The UAE president’s representative Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, a relatively low-profile brother of President Khalifa Bin Zayed and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces Mohammed Bin Zayed (MBZ), died on 18 November while undergoing medical treatment abroad. The cause of death was not revealed. A three-day official mourning period followed. The funeral took place on 20 November at Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed the First Mosque in Al-Bateen, where funeral prayers were led by MBZ.