Al-Raya Newspaper: Prominent Headlines of Issue 207

Somalia for almost three decades was not eligible for World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) funds because it owes the bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over $800m as part of a $5.5bn debt most of it interest and penalties owed to multilateral and bilateral creditors incurred in the 1980s.

Al-Raya Newspaper: Prominent Headlines of Issue 206

In the last two years, some changes have been observed in the countries of Central Asia in the internal policy of tyrannical regimes - somewhere the changes are point-like, and somewhere very real reforms have been announced. This phenomenon attracts attention primarily due to the fact that the easing and reforms do not fit in any way with the policies that the regimes of the region have been carrying out…