Category: Business

Bahrain to launch first home-made satellite in December 2023

August 22, 2022

Bahrain will launch its first 100 percent locally-built satellite by the end of December 2023, the commander of the royal court announced Sunday, Arab News ... Read More

Marrakech hosts 13th Africa Public-Private Partnership Conference in October

August 21, 2022

Marrakech will host the 13th edition of the Africa Public-Private Partnership, Africa PPP, from October 25 to 27. The Africa PPP Conference, held under the ... Read More

King calls for facilitating return of Moroccan talents abroad

August 20, 2022

King Mohammed VI gave directives to facilitate the return of Moroccan talents abroad and urged banks and public authorities to make it easier for them ... Read More

Morocco: Arab Monetary Fund forecasts 1% annual economic growth in 2022; 4% in 2023

August 20, 2022

The Arab Monetary Fund said that the expected economic growth in Morocco by the end of 2022 will not exceed 1%, after last year’s 7.9%, ... Read More

Dubai Esports Festival to kick start on Nov. 11

August 19, 2022

Dubai will host in November 11-20 the Esports Festival, Dubai Esports Festival (DEF2022), at Dubai Exhibition Centre at District 2020, reports say. DEF 2022 will ... Read More

Saudi PIF’s SRC inks 133mln real estate financing deal with Riyad Bank

August 19, 2022

The Saudi Real Estate Refinance Company (SRC), wholly owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), has signed an agreement with Riyad Bank to acquire a ... Read More

Egypt: Hassan Abdallah appointed as acting governor of central bank

August 19, 2022

Egypt’s President Abdelfattah al-Sisi has named Hassan Abdallah as acting governor of the central bank of the country after the former chief resigned Wednesday. Abdallah ... Read More

Emirates suspends all Nigeria flights from September over blocked funds

August 19, 2022

The Dubai-based Emirates airline will suspend all flights to Nigeria from 1 September after the West African country has failed to repatriate millions of dollars ... Read More

Tokyo urges Japanese private sector to invest — and beat China — in Africa

August 18, 2022

Japan, which lags behind other major economies when it comes to investment in Africa, has been increasingly concerned that the pandemic has weakened African economies ... Read More

UK to cut import taxes on 99% of goods imported from Africa

August 18, 2022

The United Kingdom is to cut import taxes on hundreds more products from some of the world's poorest countries, which is a part of its ... Read More