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Egypt: Launch of Erada microfinance to provide financial services to SMEs

The Sovereign Fund of Egypt (TSFE) and Etisalat Egypt have launched Erada Microfinance to provide access to a wide range of financial services to micro and small enterprises (MSEs). Erada uses financial technology (FinTech) and provides access to a diversified set of innovative financial products for MSEs to expand their businesses, Mubasher.info reports. The partnership, […]

France stands with Morocco for free movement in Guerguarat

France stands alongside Morocco to demand the free movement of traffic in the Guerguarat crossing point between Morocco and Mauritania, and maintain the ceasefire with the Polisario, said Christian Cambon, President of the foreign affairs, defense and armed forces committee at the French Senate. “Morocco is France’s best ally in Africa,” twitted Christian Cambon after […]

AU agriculture summit in Uganda to advance new strategy for Africa’s food self-sufficiency

Africa’s agriculture ministers are meeting in Uganda this week to discuss sustainable agriculture and food production systems in light of the climate change, which comes amid warnings that climate crisis is pushing temperatures to levels never experienced by modern humans. The extraordinary African Union (AU) summit on agriculture opened in Uganda’s capital Kampala on Thursday […]