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UAE Gives Mauritania $2B for Development

Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince receives the Mauritanian President. WAM
Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince receives the Mauritanian President. WAM
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UAE Gives Mauritania $2B for Development

Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince receives the Mauritanian President. WAM
Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince receives the Mauritanian President. WAM

The United Arab Emirates pledged Sunday to give $2 billion in aid to Mauritania.

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani visited Abu Dhabi on Sunday and met with Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

UAE’s state-run WAM news agency announced the pledge, describing it as including funding for “investment and development projects, as well as a soft loan.”

During the meeting between Ghazouani and the Crown Prince, held at the Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi, the two sides discussed ties between the UAE and Mauritania, and means to advance them in all sectors to serve the interests of the two countries, and their peoples.

Sheikh Mohammed and Ghazouani also exchanged views on regional and international developments of mutual interest.

Mauritania’s president and the Crown Prince witnessed the exchange of a number of agreements and Memoranda of Understanding at Qasr Al Watan.

The MoUs were over expanding cooperation between the two countries in educational, military and security, technical, humanitarian work, development, investment, and social care, WAM said.

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Qatar PM Hopes Palestinian Authority Will Return to Gaza When War Ends

Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2025. (AFP)
Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2025. (AFP)
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Qatar PM Hopes Palestinian Authority Will Return to Gaza When War Ends

Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2025. (AFP)
Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2025. (AFP)

Qatar's Prime Minister said in Davos on Tuesday he hoped the Palestinian Authority would return to play a governing role in Gaza once the war with Israel comes to an end.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Switzerland, two days after the ceasefire Qatar helped broker came into effect in Gaza, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani cautioned that Gazans -- and not any other country -- should dictate the way the enclave will be governed.

"We hope to see the PA back in Gaza. We hope to see a government that will really address the issues of the people over there. And there is a long way to go with Gaza and the destruction," he said.

How Gaza will be governed after the war was not directly addressed in the deal between Israel and Hamas movement that led to an immediate ceasefire and hostage releases after nearly 15 months of talks mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the US.

Israel has rejected any governing role for Hamas, which ran Gaza before the war, but it has been almost equally opposed to rule by the Palestinian Authority, the body set up under the Oslo interim peace accords three decades ago that has limited governing power in the West Bank.

The PA, dominated by the Fatah faction created by former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, faces opposition from rival faction Hamas, which drove the PA out of Gaza in 2007 after a brief war.