UNIDO chief with Moulay hafid Lalami

Egypt to launch construction of first bus powered by natural gas in 2022

Egypt is mulling plans to start manufacturing the country’s first bus powered by natural gas in 2022, Minister of Business Sector, Hisham Tawfik announced, according to Arab Finance. Some 70% of the local components of the buses will be manufactured to work with natural gas, Tawfik reportedly added. The busses will accommodate 14 to 50 […]

African policy-makers worry about economic impact of Israel-Hamas conflict

The renewed flare-up in Israeli-Palestinian conflict has caused an outrage across Africa but it has also prompted heated debates in different countries in the continent about how to reconcile the gap between their economic and trade goals and their political and cultural realities. Thousands of protesters have marched across the Middle East and Africa on […]

Iran’s drone diplomacy, a danger to the West, MENA region, expert Alex Grinberg warns

The Iranian regime’s export of drones to destabilizing actors is shaking the entire MENA region, and as the war in Ukraine has shown, shakes even Western countries, warns Alex Grinberg, expert on Iran based at the Jerusalem Institute for Security and Strategy, who underlines that after Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, the Iranian […]