French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin

Egyptian Fintech Firm Telda secures $20 million in seed funding

Cairo-based fintech startup, Telda, has landed $20 million in seeding funding from several investors including Jack Dorsey, former Twitter Chief Executive Officer, Bloomberg reports. The seed fund will serve the expansion into new markets. Telda also plans to use the money to build its product offering. “In Egypt dealing with money is still a complicated […]

Libyan rivals make inroads in Morocco-hosted talks

Representatives from eastern and western Libya have made inroads at the end of the third day of their direct talks in Bouznika, a coastal city near Rabat.   The talks, started Sunday, bring together representatives of the Tobruk-based parliament and the Libyan High Council of state, with the first representing the East and the latter […]

Five detained in Tunisia’s Kasserine governorate for organ trafficking

Five people including a Syrian-Turkish national have been arrested for organ trafficking in Tunisia’s impoverished Kasserine province, a judiciary source has told a local media. Slah Eddine Rachdi, prosecutor and spokesperson for the Kasserine Court of First Instance told Mozaique FM Sunday August 13 that the arrest came following an arrest warrant issued Friday August […]