Gulf buy now, pay later (BNPL) Tamara platform said on Monday it raised $100 million in a second round of fundraising from investors, including Sanabil Investments, which is owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund PIF, Reuters reports. The funding will help the company expand in new markets and provide customers with new products and […]
Former Defense Minister Bah N’Daw was officially designated Monday transitional president of Mali, and President of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP), Assimi Goita, was nominated transitional vice-president. The two men were appointed by a 17-member commission set up by the junta to oversee an 18-month transition before elections, Assimi Goita […]
Long considered as having an ambiguous stand on the Sahara issue, Morocco’s southern neighbor Mauritania announced neutrality calling for a consensual solution to the over-four decade conflict. Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Mauritania’s Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said his country backs UN efforts to resolve the conflict saying that a settlement would […]
