Morocco’s national credit guarantee institution, Tamwilcom, has partnered with International Finance Corportation (IFC) to expand access to finance to small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including women-led businesses, agricultural enterprises, and firms operating within supply chains. Under the partnership, IFC will provide Tamwilcom $300 million risk-sharing facility (RSF) to enable the Moroccan lending institution to diversify […]
Namibia will no longer export unprocessed mineral products, President Hage Geingob has told the recent EU-Namibia Business Forum held in Belgium, part of the African country’s bid to create more local jobs, more local value and to boost domestic industrialization efforts. Geingob’s statement came after, earlier this year, Namibia banned the export of unprocessed lithium […]
The political agreement signed by several Libyan negotiators in Morocco this weekend is a breakthrough towards a lasting peace in the North African country, although the Tripoli-based General National Congress has not initialled yet. Libya, which has been rocked by violence and fighting between rival armed groups competing for power since the fall of Gadhafi […]
