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Casablanca Stock Exchange reports record oversubscription for Vicenne’s IPO

The initial public offering (IPO) of Vicenne, a leading Moroccan medical equipment company, broke a new record on the Casablanca Stock Exchange with an IPO that was oversubscribed 64 times. The offering attracted over 32 billion dirhams in demand by investors for shares worth just 500 million dirhams, resulting in an unprecedented oversubscription. Vicenne offered […]

UN Calls for Dialogue after U.S.-led Airstrike in Syria

UNITED NATIONS – “Fighting terrorism needs to be accompanied by a genuine process including all Syrians,” said the United Nations’ new Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura at the United Nations headquarters following American and Arab airstrikes of ISIS targets for the first time on September 23. At least 70 ISIS fighters were killed […]

DRC: Eight killed in collision between boat & canoe on lake Kivu

Eight people were found dead Tuesday in South Kivu province, east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after their canoe collided with a boat on lake Kivu in the same province. Mathieu Alimasi Malumbi, the provincial transport minister in a statement to reporters indicated that victims were four women and four men. Their bodies […]