Saudi authorities pressure tribes to leave their land to make way for glitzy megacity

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The death of a tribesman in northwest Saudi Arabia has raised alarms about the government’s plans to forcibly remove locals from their land in order to build a $500 billion futuristic city called Neom. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports. 

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