The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), a state-owned organization set up by the Kingdom with a mandate to provide financial assistance and to stimulate economic growth in poor countries, has disbursed SR 37 billion in aid and loans so far. This does not include a number of soft loans and term financing for various projects especially in Africa and Asia including an SR300 million loan facility to finance the irrigation projects in Egypt.
A top official of the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday warned that more young people are dying of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the Eastern Mediterranean region than in any other region across the world.
RIYADH: Vice Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Prince Salman held talks in Jeddah yesterday with Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindawa. The talks focused on a range of bilateral and regional issues, the volatile situation in Yemen and the outcome of the recent two-day international donors’ conference.
RIYADH: Saudi security forces have arrested a wanted man following a gunfight in Awamiya in the Eastern Province town of Qatif on Sunday.
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and all other member states of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are on course to become the latest to require the use of graphic warning labels on every cigarette packet brought into their territories.