Billion-dollar facelift as Bahrain bids to join Gulf boom

By Agence France-Presse

Mar 29, 2023 3:43 pm

MANAMA: With a multi-billion-dollar economic revamp in full swing, tiny Bahrain is vying to keep pace with its Gulf neighbors after more than a decade beset by political unrest.

It's a difficult path for the island nation that is a neighbor to gas-rich Qatar and connected by a causeway to Saudi Arabia, a key ally and the world's biggest oil exporter.

Workers work on the construction site of the Golden Gate towers at Bahrain Bay in Manama on March 25, 2023. AFP PHOTO

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