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The Line (pictured) has now been massively scaled back, only set to be a few miles long

Saudi Arabia pauses its $2trillion gigaproject vision with 100-mile mega-city The Line shortened to a few miles after Riyadh ‘spent too much’ amid falling oil prices

November 3, 2025AfricTeamLeave a Comment

Saudi Arabia has paused on its sprawling $2trillion Vision 2030 strategy amid falling oil prices and a realisation that far too much money had been spent already. Vision 2030 aims to diversify the kingdom away from oil and instead towards becoming a global hub of tourism, technology and entertainment. Set up in 2016, Riyadh threw […]

Saudi Arabia launched its ambitious plans to build this ski resort in time for the Asian Winter Games, but it may be forced to move the 2029 Asian Winter Games after severe delays

Saudi Arabia ‘struggling to build desert ski resort ahead of Winter Games with officials discussing moving event to China’

August 25, 2025AfricTeamLeave a Comment

Saudi Arabia may be forced to move the 2029 Asian Winter Games after severe challenges and delays in building ski slopes in the desert. The games were meant to be held at Tojena, a new resort that is part of the kingdom’s $500billion plan to build the futuristic city of Neom. However, engineering challenges and […]

Donald Trump (pictured today on Air Force One) launched an eviscerating attack on Volodymyr Zelensky on his platform Truth Social

Trump goes to war on ‘dictator’ Zelensky in extraordinary, brutal insult-laden attack after Ukrainian vowed not to ‘sell out’ and accept peace deal for minerals

February 20, 2025AfricTeamLeave a Comment

Donald Trump has launched an eviscerating attack on Volodymyr Zelensky, calling the Ukrainian leader ‘a modestly successful comedian’ and ‘a dictator without elections’. The extraordinary outburst came after Zelensky accused the US President of falling for Russian fake news, with Trump suggesting yesterday that Ukraine was to blame for Moscow’s illegal invasion of the country […]

NEOM has been the pet-project of the Crown-Prince Mohammed bin Salman (pictured) since it was launched in 2017

Saudi Arabia’s $1trillion NEOM megacity project ‘has been plagued by gang rape, attempted murder and suicides in sprawling workers’ encampments’, report claims

January 1, 2025AfricTeamLeave a Comment

By ED HOLT and PERKIN AMALARAJ Published: 21:24, 30 December 2024 | Updated: 09:51, 1 January 2025 A report has claimed that migrant camps built to house construction workers building Saudi Arabia‘s $1trillion NEOM megacity are ‘plagued by gang rape, attempted murder and suicides’. More than 100,000 workers, mainly from countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh, […]

Saudi Arabia executed 330 people this year, the highest number in decades (File image of the execution of a drug dealer in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1985)

Saudi Arabia executed 330 people in 2024 – its highest number for decades – despite Mohammed bin Salman’s vow to drastically reduce executions

December 28, 2024AfricTeamLeave a Comment

By PERKIN AMALARAJ Published: 16:23, 24 December 2024 | Updated: 07:57, 27 December 2024 Saudi Arabia executed 330 people this year, the highest number in decades, despite de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman’s 2022 assertion that the death penalty had been eliminated except for murder cases under his vision for a new open kingdom. The […]

Nigeria in talks with Saudi Arabia to strengthens economic ties

December 26, 2024AfricTeamLeave a Comment

A Nigerian delegation, headed by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, is in Riyadh to enhance economic ties between Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. According to a statement on the Ministry of Finance’s official X handle, the delegation represents President Bola Tinubu and the Presidential Economic Coordination Council. It has […]

The metropolis appears to be invisible, floating over a marina, in one confusing artist's impression of the plans

How can Saudi Arabia’s The Line city possibly work? Baffling new images of NEOM project look like optical illusions with ships somehow able to travel THROUGH the megacity – amid reports 100-mile metropolis is being scaled back

May 7, 2024May 7, 2024AfricTeamLeave a Comment

Designs for Saudi Arabia‘s The Line are stretching the imagination once again, with baffling concept images showing a ship travelling through the megacity, amid reports that the ambitious project will need to be scaled back. NEOM, which is behind the project and is the brainchild of ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, claims the 106-mile metropolis […]

Saudi Arabia has been forced to scale back its $1.5trillion plans for a 106-mile linear desert city (pictured in concept images), according to reports, in a humiliating decision for the kingdom

Humiliation for Saudi Arabia as it’s ‘forced to scale back $1.5trillion plans for 106-mile-long city The Line to just 1.5miles with workers already being laid off at desert construction site’

April 11, 2024April 11, 2024AfricTeamLeave a Comment

Saudi Arabia has been forced to scale back its $1.5trillion plans for a 106-mile linear desert megacity, according to reports, in a humiliating climb down for the kingdom. The Line – part of the country’s audacious and futuristic NEOM project – was meant to be home to around 1.5 million residents by the end of the […]

Saudi Arabia's envoy to the UN, Abdulaziz Alwasil (pictured), was elected as chair of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in a completely unopposed race

Outrage as Saudi Arabia is chosen to lead UN women’s rights group – despite ‘abysmal’ record on equality in kingdom where wives can be stoned to death for adultery

March 29, 2024March 29, 2024AfricTeamLeave a Comment

Saudia Arabia is now chairing the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women The group is dedicated to furthering the rights of women across the world But Saudi Arabia has a shocking gender equality record By Perkin Amalaraj Published: 10:07 GMT, 28 March 2024 | Updated: 02:49 GMT, 29 March 2024 Human rights groups are up […]

C creepio! Reporter Rawya Kassem was speaking live at an artificial intelligence event in Saudia Arabia while standing next to robot Muhammed

Robo cop-a-feel: Cheeky AI robot touches shocked woman’s bottom at Saudi artificial intelligence event

March 9, 2024March 9, 2024AfricTeamLeave a Comment

By Taryn Pedler and Nishan Chilkuri Published: 12:44 GMT, 8 March 2024 | Updated: 21:01 GMT, 8 March 2024 A cheeky male AI robot was caught touching a woman on the bottom in front of an audience while she reported from an artificial intelligence event. In hilarious fotage, reporter Rawya Kassem can be seen standing […]