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Russia Wednesday indicated that it reached a draft deal with Sudan to build a naval base on the Red Sea coast of the African country. President Vladimir Putin is yet to rubber-stamp the deal, Middle East Monitor, MEMO, reports. Per Read more
Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Development Company has unveiled its tourism master plan, which seeks to create 70,000 jobs in the sector and contribute $5.86 billion to the kingdom’s GDP. The company CEO John Pagano and his team presented the master Read more
Saudi Arabia Wednesday awarded three contracts worth $14 billion for the expansion and the modernization of its railway network after the inauguration last month of its first high speed train, Haramain. The first Land Bridge project, worth $10.6-billion, will link Read more
London-based tour operator Thomas Cook said Thursday it will evacuate 300 tourists from Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel in Hurghada, a province near the Red Sea, after a British couple died in unclear circumstances. John and Susan Cooper, from Burnley, Lancashire, Read more
German national, Klaus Kleinfeld has been named advisor to the Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman on ‘enhancing the economic, technological and financial development” of the kingdom, leaving his current position of Chief Executive Officer of the development of the Saudi Read more
A Saudi oil tanker sailing in the Red Sea off the port of Hodeidah came under attack Tuesday afternoon after Houthi rebels who control the port city assaulted the vessel before being repelled by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. The Read more
Saudi Arabia’s Environment Minister Abdulrahman al-Fadhli unveiled plans to build nine desalination plants on the Red Sea coast for a total cost of $530 million. The Saudi official said, on Twitter, that the plants will be ready in 18 months Read more
Saudi Arabia is planning to start issuing tourist visa from next year in its drive to open the country to foreign investment, reports say. “Hopefully in 2018,” said Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, head of the Saudi Commission for Read more
A man armed with a knife killed two Ukrainian tourists Friday and wounded four other foreign holidaymakers, all women, at Hurghada resort, in the Red Sea, few hours after gunmen killed five security forces in their vehicle early in the Read more
Saudi Arabia has offered Egyptian parliamentarians who voted in favor of the transfer of the Red Sea Islands to the Kingdom Mecca visas, London-based Qatari The New Arab reported. The gesture comes one month after the Parliament churned the Administrative Read more