RIYADH Saudi Arabia came third  position among the  smallest-  threat  countries in the Middle East and Africa region in the fourth quarter of 2022,  tallying to the GlobalData Regional and Global Risk Index.   The  indicator is a  special standing model that determines the being and  unborn regulators of country  threat by  laying  colorful qualitative and quantitative  procurators.   The UAE came in first as the  smallest-  threat nation in the region with Qatar and Kuwait ranked fourth and fifth independently, while Bahrain came in the ninth  situation.   The region’s  force chain  dislocation and consequent  boost in prices of essential goods fueled by geopolitical pressures  set it at high  threat for food instability and rising debt.   The MEA region depends  substantially on Russia and Ukraine for  significances of staple food  particulars;  thus, its  threat  grievance  went along up from 54 to54.3 out of 100.   “ The  resolution by OPEC( the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting  nations and its abettors ) to  slash  oil painting  product can impact the profitability of  oil painting- producing  countries in the MEA region, which calculate heavily on  oil painting exports to  punch their  husbandry, ” GlobalData critic Bindi Patel  spoke.   “ At the same time,  numerous  nations in the MEA region are heavily dependent on food  significances, and  dislocations to food  force  progressions due to  procurators  similar as  discordance in Ukraine and Syria,  failure in Horn of African  countries and Kenya  remain to  produce significant  expostulations for food  screen, ” he  lasted.   Indeed though the region has been  exact in applying  financial  programs, affectation  position is likely to remain alarmingly high with only a borderline  drop  swelled, Patel stated.   He  appended that the affectation rate is estimated to be18.7 percent in 2023 with high  classes awaited in Egypt, Iran, Turkiye and Nigeria.   “ The  common  threat for the  nations in the region is still upward as  farther  retardation in the global frugality,  adding  tighter  financial conditions,  common geopolitical pressures, and rise in  penury and food instability  remain to negatively weigh on the MEA  husbandry, ” Patel concluded.