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Breakaway sporting competitions are almost as old as professional sport itself. Ever since 21 northern English rugby clubs set up their own League in 1895 over a row about wanting to pay their players, two codes of rugby have...

“Success breeds success” is a saying that is often used to explain the kind of sporting dominance enjoyed by different nations at various times over the last century: think Hungary’s “Mighty Magyars” who were at the top of world...

If any doubts remained about the link between geopolitics and international sport, then the recent reaction of global sporting bodies to the Russia-Ukraine conflict has surely dispelled them....

Later this year one of the world’s most watched sporting events, the FIFA World Cup, will be hosted in the Middle East for the first time, in Qatar....

Roman Abramovich’s decision to put Chelsea Football Club up for sale (shortly before he was sanctioned by the UK government for his links to Russian president Vladimir Putin) has already attracted a number of potential buyers....

The latest in our series on clean energy in the Middle East and Africa takes a closer look at the progress being made in Iran in pursuit of reducing carbon emissions....

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Studying the Middle East as a Turkish researcher is no easy task. There are the practical challenges of conducting fieldwork in the region – navigating visa restrictions that are often subject to the political relations between...

While I generally try to avoid making ill-fated predictions and resolutions at this time of year, there are times when a passing comment or suggestion seems to put a new complexion on, and even set the tone for, the 12 months...

Anyone who has lived and worked in the Gulf is probably accustomed to seeing new roads, buildings, sometimes whole cities erupt from the desert landscape in staggeringly short periods of time. Ambitious new infrastructure...

North Africa has an abundance of renewable energy resources, with some of the highest potentials in the world for solar energy deployment. After a series of successful projects in recent years, the region is now set to develop...

Much has been said about how the pandemic has changed our relationship with online shopping. However, the situation in Iran is somewhat unique, as sanctions from abroad and firewalls from within create difficulties (and...

With global attention focusing on climate change and the clean energy transition, Africa is an important continent to watch in the drive for decarbonisation alongside rapid economic development. Several major initiatives are...

In the second of our series of blogs and white papers covering clean energy initiatives across Africa and the wider Middle East, we focus on the uptake of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in the Gulf states....

After years of muted progress, the Gulf states are now ramping up their efforts to address climate change with major new targets and initiatives recently announced. This comes amidst a flurry of worldwide activity on climate...

Next week, global leaders will gather in Glasgow at the UN’s climate change conference, COP26, to discuss how to reduce the devastating impact that global warming and climate change are having on our planet. This year to date has...

Article from volume 45,  issue 1,131 The Covid-19 pandemic has put huge pressure on government finances, but Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s favoured mega-projects have continued nevertheless, underpinned by Public Investment...

Article from volume 45,  issue 1,131...

In celebration of the festival of Eid al-Adha, there will be a public sector holiday for many countries in the Middle East & North Africa this week. Diligenca’s offices will be open as usual, however, please expect the delivery...

Diligencia has been ranked in the new Chambers Crisis and Risk Management Guide in the Business Intelligence & Investigations: Pre-Transactional Advisory (Investigative Due Diligence) - Global-wide table....