An ECOWAS summit opened on Sunday (7 July), a day after the military rulers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger signed a confederation treaty in the latest show of their shift away from traditional regional and Western allies. During a summit in the Niger’s capital of Niamey on Saturday (6 July), the three junta leaders […]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is set to approve by end of May a $100 million loan program to Banque Misr, under the Financial Intermediaries Framework (“FIF”), to finance micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The program, according to the EBRD website, will support BM’s lending to private MSMEs in Egypt, where […]
Efforts and investment policies implemented by Moroccan authorities to make the kingdom one of the first investment destination in Africa are paying off. The Paris-based consulting firm Havas Horizon has ranked, in its latest report, the North African country the third most attractive investment destination for the coming years. The report titled “Financing the African […]
