His Excellency President Dr. Rashad al-Alimi, Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) met today, Monday, with the Speaker of Shura Council Dr. Ahmed Obeid bin Dagher to discuss the ongoing preparations to convene the meeting of the Shura Council and to re-forming the Anti-Corruption High National Commission (ACHNC) to enforce the resolutions and recommendations of the PLC.
The casualties toll of the Israeli occupation forces' annihilation warfare on Gaza Strip has risen to 46,565 martyrs and 109,660 injured since the seventh of October 2023, the majority of whom are children and women, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble and in the streets, as the occupation prevents ambulance and civil defense crews from reaching them.
Oil prices hit their highest level today, Monday, in more than three months at the open, on anticipations that Russian oil supplies to China and India may be affected.
Real Madrid will meet its traditional rival Barcelona tomorrow, Sunday, at King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah, in the Spanish Super Cup final hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Leadership Council Chairman, WB Managing Director discuss bilateral cooperation
[24/09/2024 05:38]
NEW YORK – SABA
Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council Dr. Rashad al-Alimi held discussions with the World Bank's Managing Director of Operations Anna Bjerde here today on areas of bilateral cooperation.
Talks went over means of promoting partnership between the government and the World Bank in economic and development and institutional capacity building fields and on reinforcing progress achieved on the track of comprehensive reforms.
Al-Alimi praised the World Bank's development interventions, mainly the bank's financing of several vital projects in health, education, agriculture, fisheries, food security, and social protection fields.
He thanked the World Bank's interventions in building and strengthening institutional capacities, supporting the Central Bank, encouraging economic growth, and supporting the private sector's resilience.
He noted the WB's opening of a representing office in the temporary capital Aden, emphasizing the government's keenness to offer all facilities to international organizations to perform their mission across the country.