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Kenya deploys 217 more police officers to join UN mission fighting gang violence in Haiti

Kenya has deployed an additional 217 police officers to the Caribbean island nation of Haiti as part of a UN-backed multinational force to control gang violence and restore stability there. They arrived in capital Port-au-Prince on Saturday (18 January) to join the first batch of 400 officers deployed to Haiti last year, tasked with restoring […]

Healthtech: 3 Moroccan startups win Gates Foundation funding

Moroccan companies DeepEcho, Medevice and Sorbus are among the winners of grants awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support African health innovators seeking to optimize supply chains, improve access to medicines and advance towards universal health coverage. Twenty-seven other healthtech start-ups have been selected to benefit from a $7 million program (i3) […]

EBRD Supports Egypt International Trade With $50 Mln Loan

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has lent the National bank of Egypt (NBE) US$ 50 million to help and encourage Egyptian companies engage more in international trade operations. This trade credit line is the second part of a US $ 100 million facility, the first part of which comprised a US$ 50 […]