An explosion killed at least eleven people and injured 53 on a bus in central Mali on Thursday (13 October), a region regularly rocked by jihadist violence, according to police and local sources. The blast occurred when the bus hit an explosive device and all the victims of the explosion were civilians, as per reports. […]
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund bought shares in Alphabet, Zoom Video and Microsoft as part of a wider pick of US stocks, bringing the sovereign wealth fund’s second-quarter investments to about $40.8 billion, Arab Finance reports. A filing from US Securities and Exchange Commission indicated that PIF acquired 213,000 class A shares in Alphabet; 4.7 […]
Finance minister Nadia Fattah Alaoui said the introduction of cryptocurrencies in Morocco would help promote financial inclusion provided they are governed by a sound legal framework. The Moroccan central bank said a draft law was undergoing the process of adoption ending a ban that has been in place since 2017. The central bank was also […]
