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IFC to invest $100m in Nairobi-listed Diamond Trust Bank to back SMEs hit by pandemic

International Finance Corporation (IFC) will invest 12.18 billion shillings ($100 million) in Nairobi-listed Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) impacted by Covid-19, Zawya reports, citing Kenyan Wall Street newspaper. The investment will be in senior debt under its Covid-19 emergency response working capital solutions scheme (WCS FIGE). IFC initiated the […]

OCP- UM6P: Impulse Program Showcased to Ghana’s Agro-entrepreneurs

Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) organized lately in Accra, an information session about Impulse, a startup acceleration program, sponsored by OCP Group and its subsidiary OCP Africa.   The program supports startups working in the fields of Agritech, biotechnologies, nanotechnologies and mining technologies. It has been designed in collation with MassChallenge, a global startup acceleration […]

US recognition of Moroccanness of Sahara important for a lasting solution, Former Brazilian President says

Former Brazilian President Fernando Collor De Mello stressed, in a recent letter to US President Joe Biden, the importance of the US decision to recognize Morocco’s full sovereignty over its Sahara as a new dynamic towards a lasting solution to this artificial conflict. “I would like to express to Your Excellency my satisfaction after the […]