Sheikh Mohammed appoints new director-general of Dubai Customs

Dubai: In his capacity as the Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, issued Decree No. 23 of 2024 seconding Dr Abdulla Mohammed Busenad from Dubai Police and appointing him as the Director-General of Dubai Customs.

He also issued Decree No. 21 of 2024 promoting Major General Awad Hader Al Muhairi and appointing him as the Vice President of Dubai’s State Security Department.

Sheikh Mohammed further issued Decree No. 22 of 2024 promoting Major General Tamim Mohammed Al Muhairi and appointing him as the Director-General of Dubai’s State Security Department.

All Decrees are effective from the date of their issuance and will be published in the Official Gazette.

The five-year global competition aims to encourage innovators around the world to focus on transforming the reliability, affordability and sustainability of water desalination technologies.

The Mohamed bin Zayed Water Initiative is dedicated to raising the importance of water scarcity on the international agenda and accelerating the development, testing and deployment at scale of transformative and sustainable technological solutions to address the threats it poses to people, businesses and communities worldwide. Working with its partners, the initiative seeks to harness the power of targeted investment, accelerated technological innovation and expanded international cooperation to address this worsening challenge.

President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan haswitnessed the announcement of a partnership between the Mohamed bin Zayed Water Initiative and XPRIZE, with an investment of $150 million to launch the XPRIZE Water Scarcity competition, which has a total prize purse of $119 million.

Commenting on the launch of the Mohamed bin Zayed Water Initiative and XPRIZE partnership announcement, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Mohamed bin Zayed Water Initiative, said: “The solutions that currently exist to address the water scarcity crisis are not sufficient to prevent a range of unacceptable scenarios from occurring. New solutions are therefore urgently required, and the Mohamed bin Zayed Water Initiative is committed to collaborating with stakeholders from around the world to uncover these new ideas, to prove their viability, and to bring them to fruition as efficiently as possible.”