The Arab Spring that erupted in 2010 marked the end of the era of Egyptian hegemony and the beginning of a shift in power now completed towards the region’s smaller, wealthier, and more progressive countries like the UAE.
ABU DHABI, 30th January, 2022 (WAM) In early December when South African doctors first reported a new strain of coronavirus spreading very quickly there, researchers and governments the world over feared that Omicron might overwhelm medical services already strained by almost two years of fighting the virus, commented a local daily.
Acting swiftly and based on painful experiences from other waves of the virus during this pandemic, restrictive measures were imposed to try and prevent Omicron from doing its worst, Gulf News wrote in.