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MasterCard, Copal ink partnership agreement to launch family payments mobile app in Egypt

MasterCard has inked a partnership agreement with Copal to launch Egypt’s first family digital payment and expenses management mobile application, Arab Finance reports, citing a press release. The app aims to spread E-banking services by integrating youth into the banking system and the formal economy in a way that achieve Egypt’s financial inclusion goals, the […]

Algeria arrests economists who criticized Tebboune’s iron mine project

Reports suggested that Algerian economist and financial-engineering expert Djelloul Slama has been detained after commenting on the country’s iron-ore megaproject project, marketed as an economic milestone by the regime of Tebboune. Slama is a well-known media commentator whose analyses on Algerian economic policy, fiscal imbalances and structural challenges are widely disseminated in Algeria. He is […]

Morocco Seeks Attack Helicopters

Finally Morocco is filling the gap in its helicopter attack capacity as the country is reportedly negotiating the purchase of the mighty Apache AH 64. The deal might have been sealed during a visit by Morocco’s chief of Staff Abdelfattah Lourak last April in Washington, le360 reported. The news come after reports raised a possible […]