STORY – Haïtham Ben Tariq, the new leader of this atypical country praised for his conciliatory diplomacy, must respond to the social demands of a youth knocking at the door.
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Overwhelmed with work, Dr. Mohammed al-Yamani had to delay our appointment for two hours. “We are understaffed. Before the Covidmy clinic had 28 beds, I only have 10 left, and 600 foreign nurses have left the country”regrets this cardiologist trained in France, who however sees some “Hand” to the pandemic. “Certainly, it will take us ten years, but we are going to train the 10,000 Omani nurses we need.”
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Stretched in the south of the Arabian Peninsula, the very discreet Sultanate of Oman is going through a transition. “An alarm clock”, enthuses a young journalist. Added to a pandemic which aggravated the structural weaknesses of a country with a population of 5 million, 45% of whom are foreigners, the death in January 2020 of Sultan Qaboos, true father of the nation after 50 years of reign, marked the beginning a new era for Oman, whose economy has been revived by the rise in oil prices following the war in Ukraine.
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