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Morocco Launches Mobile Banking to Keep up with Evolving Digital Trend

Morocco has launched mobile banking, which will enable customers of banks or financial institutions to make remote financial transactions using a smartphone or tablet. Dubbed m-Wallet (e-wallet), this service, which comes to complete online banking, offers to users the possibility to check balance, send money, pay bills, track expenditures, purchase goods and services using mobile […]

Libya: Arab League aware of “difficult circumstances” against IS

After Tobruk-based government’s last week call for the intervention of Arab states to help it fight the militants of the Islamic State (IS) in Libya, the Arab League held an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday and acknowledged that “the situation has become more pressing in the difficult circumstances to speed up putting together an Arab strategy” […]

Leaked documents reveal systemic failures in Nigerian oil-spill cleanup

A satellite image captured above Nigeria’s Niger Delta in 2021 revealed a swath of barren land near Port Harcourt—once lush farmland, now rendered unusable. This site was on a cleanup list maintained by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which aimed to restore lands scarred by thousands of oil spills. Instead, the site was left […]