With the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah came the crowning of King Salman.
Salman bin Abdulaziz, who was named crown prince in June 2012, was Abdullah’s third heir to the throne after two elder brothers died in late 2011 and mid-2012. As the new King of Saudi Arabia, home to 28 million people, he will also serve as Prime Minister and Defense Minister.
A longtime governor of the capital, Riyadh, Salman has a reputation as a progressive and practical prince similar in bearing to his late brother.
Find out more about who he is and what his policies are by watching today’s Know Right Now. Or read more about the King here.
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Rich Nation, Poor People: Saudi Arabia by Lynsey Addario
Fatima Hazazi stands in front of boxes of medicine she requires monthly to treat her kidney problem at home in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Despite the extremely wealthy sector of society in Saudi Arabia, and the the veneer of widespread affluence projected outside the Kingdom, severe poverty is as much a part of life in Riyadh as wealth.
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Saudi children play on old furniture outside of the home in which they live in a poor neighborhood in South Riyadh.
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One of twelve children living in a house that Yayeh Mussawa rents with his family in South Riyadh. Like many across Saudi Arabia who are living barely above the poverty line, Mussawa's family relies on charity to survive.
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Saudis beg in a line on a street known to locals as 'The Beggars' Street,' in South Riyadh.
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Saudi children do the dishes in a home in South Riyadh.
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Selma Saleh, an impoverished Saudi woman, sits on her bed in her home in South Riyadh.
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Matara stands with her two boys next to a sink without water in her home in South Riyadh.
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A young man begs on the street in Riyadh.
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Saudi citizens rest after presenting Saudi billionaire, HRH Prince al Waleed bin Talal, with petitions for his help at a desert camp outside of Riyadh.
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Saudi billionaire, HRH Prince Waleed bin Talal, greets Saudi citizens at a desert camp outside of Riyadh to accept their petitions for his help.
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Saudi billionaire, HRH Prince Waleed bin Talal, greets Saudi citizens at a desert camp outside of Riyadh to accept their petitions for his help.
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Saudi billionaire, HRH Prince Waleed bin Talal, greets Saudi citizens at a desert camp outside of Riyadh to accept their petitions for his help.
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Young Saudi women pray in a friend's home before going out to dinner in Riyadh. Though statistics are difficult to confirm, youth unemployment and poverty are on the rise in Saudi Arabia. While society is increasingly open to women in the workforce, there are still limited jobs in which women and men can work side by side. There are a great number of highly educated Saudis who can not find work suitable for their qualifications.
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A Saudi woman bids on an Arabian Horse at an auction outside of Riyadh.
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Saudi men pray at dusk at a camel market outside of Riyadh.
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Saudis linger after an auction for Arabian Horses at a club outside of Riyadh.
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