Northern Africa

CAIRO – Royal Dutch Shell, through subsidiaries Shell Egypt and Shell Austria, has completed the sale of upstream assets in Egypt’s the Western Desert to Cheiron Petroleum Corporation and Cairn …

After a successful batch 1 Plug and Play’s Smart Cities program, the company has launched a second accelerator program in the region with a similar strategy to other successful Plug …

Worldwide, an estimated 200 million businesses still rely on cash payments, and 1.7 billion people in regular paid work have no access to bank accounts. Based out of London, Dopay …

CAIRO — Egyptian state-controlled payments firm e-finance for Digital and Financial Investments said on Sunday it would offer up to 14.5% of its capital in an initial public offering in …

Cement companies in Egypt are seeking to return to operating with natural gas fuels instead of coal, after nearly seven years of the government’s decision to compel companies to use …

(Bloomberg) — Demonstrators have interrupted loading of an oil tanker and taken over the control room at Libya’s biggest crude terminal, as a fresh wave of protests across the nation’s …

(Bloomberg) –Libya’s oil production is in danger of slumping again, as a political power struggle threatens to end a period of relative stability. The standoff comes at an unfortunate time …

Mashreq Bank has appointed Ragia Samir as Senior Vice President and Head of Marketing in Egypt. Ragia has more than 20 years of experience in the marketing field in Egypt …

A four-way ministerial meeting of the Arab Gas Pipeline countries (Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon) resulted in an agreement to deliver Egyptian natural gas to Lebanon via Jordan and Syria, …

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has welcomed Egypt as its newest member state. Egypt’s Prime Minister, H.E. Dr Mostafa Madbouly, committed North Africa’s most populous nation to become the 32nd member …