Saudi newspapers highlighted in their editorials today a number of issues at local, regional and international arenas. Al-Riyadh newspaper in its editorial entitled " A State as a shining planet'' wrote that day after day, our country proves that it is a bright planet in its approach and policy of unifying ranks and spreading the culture of peace among nations, noting that the Jeddah agreement is one of a series of an approach calling for a world living in peace and harmony. The paper cited in this regard achieving reconciliation between different parties including Afghan peace agreement, Taif agreement which led to the cessation of the Lebanese civil war, the reconciliation among the Palestinian people, the Kingdom's hosting of American Islamic Summit, reconciliation in Yemen through the Gulf initiative, and efforts to end the civil war in Somalia and national reconciliation in Iraq. Okaz newspaper commented on Africa and its strategic depth, saying that although the Red Sea constitutes a geographical separation between the Kingdom and the African continent, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's belief in its connection with the peoples of that continent has made topographic barriers ineffective with greater concern for the development of these countries and rescuing their peoples from the clutches of poverty, ignorance or disease, a triad that spreads in many African countries in the shadow of their scarcity of resources, or the language of killing and destruction. Okaz paper noted that the white hands of the Government of the Kingdom have been extended to African peoples including urgent and relief aid of food and medicine.
