Participants in the 1st African Conference on Health Risk Reduction, held under the High Patronage of HM King Mohammed VI, recommended, on Friday in Marrakech at the end of the proceedings of this event, the development of an African Charter on Health Harm Reduction in Africa, based on a multi-stakeholder vision, as an essential step […]
Nigerian-based fintech startup OPay has raised a $120 million Series B round backed by Chinese investors. Founded by consumer internet company Opera, OPay will use the funds to scale up in Nigeria and expand its payments product to Kenya, Ghana and South Africa, the company said in a statement. Incubated by Norwegian-based consumer internet outfit […]
As Tunisia is at grips with a seemingly inextricable political situation, rating agencies continue to reduce its standings, in an unnecessary additional evidence that the country’s economy is not faring any better than politics. The latest of these agencies is Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services# which lowered Tunisia’s long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings […]
