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African start-ups break record with securing $1.2bn funding in 2024 — report

African start-ups recorded an impressive fundraising performance in July 2024, raising $420 million, the highest monthly figure since the tracking began in 2019, according to a recent report by Africa: The Big Deal. This sum also represents 2.5 times the average monthly amount raised over the past one year, signaling a strong rebound in investment […]

On Algeria’s failed attempts to portray Kabyle independence movement as terrorist

For more than four years, Algeria’s regime has repeated the same refrain accusing the Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylie (MAK) as a “terrorist” organization, remote-controlled from abroad, notably Morocco. But this rhetoric, hammered home relentlessly, is showing its limits at home, while no one believes it abroad. This came to the fore again after […]

Fourteen people to face justice in Denmark after sharing beheading video

Fourteen people will stand before justice in Denmark for apology of terrorism after they shared a video of the murder of two Scandinavian women in Morocco by terrorists acting as lone wolves. Danish student Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, and 28-year-old Norwegian Maren Ueland were found dead at an isolated hiking spot south of Marrakesh on […]