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A 9 October forum in Abu Dhabi brought public and private-sector participants together to discuss renewables, grids, storage, nuclear power and lower emissions from oil and gas.
At GCC industrial meetings in Bahrain, the UAE highlighted industrial integration, AI adoption and private-sector partnerships, citing AED260bn in industrial exports in 2025.
A WAM report says the UAE is shifting from building space capabilities to expanding manufacturing, data and services, with 2031 targets to double space revenues and raise value added 60%.
ZainTECH said it expanded its regional collaboration with Red Hat after achieving Premier Partner status and a certified cloud-provider designation. The work covers virtualisation transitions, AI workloads in sovereign cloud, application modernisation and hybrid-IT automation; no customer deployment or contract value was disclosed.
Zain Group’s digital-solutions arm ZainTECH said it signed a multi-year agreement with AWS to help Saudi organisations in government, finance, energy and healthcare adopt cloud and AI services. The announcement gives no investment value or named customer deployment.
Published in October 2026, the report combines household surveys from late 2024 to mid-2025 with satellite indicators to track food, agriculture and livelihoods using distinct measures.
A World Bank brief dated 9 October says poverty remains widespread in the Democratic Republic of Congo despite 5.7% growth in 2025. Mining-led activity dominates output and exports, but its share of employment is much smaller.
Dubai Finance reports a 90.1% cashless-transactions index and more than AED8bn in economic contribution; government collections were 99.66% cashless in H1.
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