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Jordanian stability will outface economic challenges

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JORDAN

Activists had threatened more protests if progress were not achieved by that deadline. There have been no reforms as yet and a new draft income-tax law offered for public…

Algeria’s army will seek new civilian partners

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ALGERIA

Outlook for the army's involvement in politics.

Military will obstruct economic reforms in Egypt

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EGYPT

These include publishing a strategy document on changing the state's role in the economy and placing the assets of five companies, two of them owned by the military, with the…

Deepening Saudi-Emirati cooperation may be divisive

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SAUDI ARABIA/UAE

Saudi-Emirati strategic partnership.

Iraqi premier’s post-poll chances depend on Sadrists

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IRAQ

This comes as local press report that powerful Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr might be prepared to lift his election boycott, on certain conditions. Sadrist backing was crucial to…

Iraq’s upcoming government will have a limited mandate

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IRAQ

He promised the protesters -- who reject him as a member of the ruling establishment -- wholesale reforms, a say in the new cabinet and an end to the security crackdown. This came…

Israel’s high-tech industry may plateau

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ISRAEL

This was on top of a record 3.2 billion dollars of new investment capital raised by such companies in the first half of the year. Start-up fundraising, a key metric of…

Prospects for Iran to end-2020

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PROSPECTS H2 2020

Politicians will increasingly look to presidential polls due in 2021, further weakening the incumbent. The external environment remains largely unfavourable.

Prospects for Iran in 2020

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PROSPECTS 2020

Prospects for Iran in 2020.

Civilian transition would lift Sudan’s economic slump

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SUDAN

Donors have made the formation of a civilian government a condition for the resumption of financing, which halted (except for humanitarian aid) after the October 2021 military…