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EY
UBS hands EY one of biggest audit deals in global banking
...Last year EY won a share of the €60mn-a-year audit contract of France’s largest bank BNP Paribas, prompting senior partner Omar Ali to tell staff the firm was “now the clear market leader in financial services...
July 16, 2023
News in-depthNiger
Russian troop arrival spells end for US military presence in Niger
...Nigerien officials said the US delegation was “condescending”, and rebuffed their attempts to meet junta leader General Omar Tchiani....
April 24, 2024
FT Live
Africa Summit
Africa in a complex world
Tuesday, 29 OctoberLondon, UK
Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Not all coups in Africa are the same
...Ali Bongo succeeded his father, Omar, who died in June 2009 after ruling for nearly 42 years....
September 2, 2023
News in-depthGabon
Gabon coup brings abrupt end to Bongos’ improbable 56-year dynasty
...Yet Omar Bongo, born into a peasant family in Gabon’s Bateke region, was no doctor or lawyer....
September 1, 2023
Mortgages
European mortgage market set for lowest growth in a decade
...“The housing market is taking the biggest hit,” said Omar Ali, EY’s financial services managing partner for Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa....
December 11, 2023
African politics
Military leaders seize power in oil-rich Gabon
...Bongo has been in power since his father Omar Bongo died in office in 2009 having run the central African country for more than four decades....
August 30, 2023
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Letter
Letter: West turned blind eye to decades of Gabon misrule
...The recently deposed President Ali Bongo was an even worse version of his father....
September 6, 2023
Travel
A journey through ancient Albania
...The prisoners were there in the early 19th century, in the time of the sadistic Ali Pasha with whom Lord Byron had tea — the pasha was obsessed with the poet’s delicate white hands and pampered him with...
March 20, 2024
News in-depthSouth Africa
South African Jewish community unnerved by Israel genocide case
...Ali Bacher, a relative of Teeger who captained South Africa’s whites-only national cricket team during the apartheid era, said the decision to remove the player tapped uncertainty in the Jewish community...
January 25, 2024
EY
EY wins share of BNP audit amid break-up planning
...EY’s EMEIA financial services leader Omar Ali announced EY’s appointment by BNP this week in an internal memo to staff seen by the Financial Times....
July 1, 2022
News in-depthGabon
‘Déjà coup’ in Gabon as another African government falls to military rule
...His father Omar Bongo ran Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009, when Ali Bongo succeeded him....
August 31, 2023
Europe Express
Crisis and coups as EU ministers discuss west Africa Premium content
...European diplomats in Libreville, Gabon’s capital, held crisis talks yesterday as the country’s arrested president, Ali Bongo, issued a video calling for western assistance....
August 31, 2023
News in-depthFrench politics
Gabon coup deals setback to France’s strategy in Africa
...The term refers to the system that took root in the 1960s that saw Paris prop up locally despised leaders — such as Ali Bongo’s father Omar, who ruled for more than 40 years — in exchange for the protection...
September 4, 2023
Niger
West African leaders put military forces on ‘standby’ over Niger coup
...The junta, led by General Omar Tchiani who previously ran Bazoum’s presidential guard, has spurned diplomatic efforts to seek a solution to the unfolding crisis....
August 10, 2023
Niger
Blinken backs West African efforts to restore Niger’s constitutional order
...Tchiani on Tuesday began forming a cabinet, appointing Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, a former finance minister, as prime minister....
August 8, 2023
FT Live
Finance Disrupted at TNW Conference
Shaking The Foundations Of Finance | Formerly Future of Finance
Thursday, 20 JuneAmsterdam, Netherlands
Corporate governance
Over 25% of European financial services board members hold 4 or more posts
...Chairs at financial services companies “spoke of concerns that the prestige of a board seat could affect willingness to challenge the status quo”, said Omar Ali, EY’s financial services managing partner...
July 16, 2023
Sudan
‘The garden of war’: horseback killers return to Darfur
...Burhan climbed through the army ranks while fighting rebels in Darfur who rose up against the Arab-dominated government of former strongman Omar al-Bashir in a brutal war that started in 2003 and cost about...
June 1, 2023
Kim Ghattas
How far should the Arab world go in normalising Assad?
...But even if he is welcomed back into the fold, it is worth remembering that such visits did not save Sudan’s Omar Bashir — nor did it help his country....
April 26, 2023
European banks
Eurozone bank lending predicted to fall for first time since 2014
...“The region’s economies are facing recession, and a contraction in borrowing driven by reduced demand and supply is forecast as consumers, businesses and banks become more cautious,” said Omar Ali, partner...
December 4, 2022
Financial services
Women pass 40% mark on European financial services boards but hurdles remain
...“I think progressive financial services firms see this as a strategic priority,” said Omar Ali, financial services managing partner for Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa at EY....
January 9, 2023
The Big Read
Somalia rebuilds: ‘the glass is now half-full’
...“Both the federal government and the clans are committed to sustaining their momentum,” says Omar Mahmood, senior Somalia analyst at the Crisis Group think-tank....
April 16, 2023
UK immigration
The refugees caught up in the UK’s Rwanda deportation plans
...Like other young Sudanese persecuted for their part in the protests that helped end Omar al-Bashir’s 30 year rule in 2019, he believed Britain, the former colonial power, would grant him sanctuary....
June 17, 2022
Cost of living crisis
Sunak backs PM and denies claims about timing of cost of living aid
...He also rejected the views of senior Conservatives such as former Treasury minister Jesse Norman and John Penrose, the government’s anti-corruption tsar, who had both withdrawn their support for the PM earlier...
June 6, 2022
Photography
Authentic Brands buys UK photography archive Iconic
...The UK company also represents other photographers including Janet Macoska who photographed new-wave acts including Blondie and Devo; Norman Parkinson who photographed The Beatles; and Kevin Cummins who...
November 15, 2021
Afghanistan
Taliban announces government as it faces growing crises and isolation
...Mohammad Yaqoob, Taliban founder Omar’s son, has been appointed acting defence minister....
September 7, 2021

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