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Mauritania, Islamic Development Bank sign €116.6 million financing deals for health and energy

Mauritania and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) have signed two financing agreements worth €116.6 million to strengthen the country’s health and energy sectors.   The agreements were signed in Jeddah by Mauritania’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Abdallah Ould Souleymane Ould Cheikh Sidia, and IsDB Vice-President for Operations, Rami Ahmed, in the presence of senior Mauritanian […]

Generative AI-driven fraud surges across Africa, reaching crisis levels — Smile ID report

Generative AI was behind more than a third of new biometric fraud cases in Africa last year, according to a new report by Smile ID, the continent’s leading provider of identity verification solutions, warning that the surge in deepfakes threatens the data of millions of consumers whose details are held on insecure systems. The 2025 […]

Qatar’s ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani named the most influential Muslim

Jordan-based “The Muslim 500” has named Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani as the most influential Muslim. Sheikh Tamim tops 50 influential Muslim personalities. Saudi ruler King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud, and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei follow respectively 2nd and 3rd. The Jordanian Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, an independent research entity […]