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Egypt is currently negotiating with Qatar on new investments ranging between $2bn-3bn, Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait announced on Monday, Zawya reports. Maait did not provide details but the announcement comes after Qatar’s ruler Sheikh Tamim al Thani visited Egypt Read more
Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has opened its first regional headquarter in Cairo, Egypt, Arab Finance reports. The bank made the announcement in an email press release seen by the media, following the 2022 Annual Meetings, which was held in Read more
India has exempted Egypt from its ban on wheat exports after heat waves dealt a blow to the crop’s production, reports say. Egyptian Minister of Agriculture Al-Sayed El-Quseir reportedly Sunday told Bloomberg Agency that India’s decision of last week will Read more
Saudi Arabia’s agriculture technology startup Red Sea Farms said on Monday it had raised an additional $18.5 million to help expand its fresh produce line and also to sell its technology to users in harsh, water scarce environments, Arab News Read more
King Mohammed VI of Morocco, received on Wednesday at the royal residence in Bouznika, the head of government, Aziz Akhannouch and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests, Mohamed Sadiki. This audience is part of the Read more
The Arab Fund for Social and Economic Development (AFESD) is expected to sign an agreement with one of the Egyptian banks to finance SMEs with $30 million, Arab Finance reports. The future new funding comes on top of the ongoing Read more
Al Dahra, an agriculture firm based in Abu Dhabi, specializing in the cultivation, production and trading of animal feed and human food commodities is set to launch five new animal feed plants in Eastern Europe as part of its expansion Read more
The Food and Agriculture Organization has warned that food security and nutrition levels in the Near East and North Africa have sharply deteriorated over the last five years, undermining the steady improvement achieved before 2010 when the prevalence of undernourishment, Read more
King Mohammed VI of Morocco chaired Tuesday at the Royal Palace in Casablanca, the first meeting on the giant gas pipeline project that will go up from Nigeria to Morocco via several West African countries. This landmark project, the biggest Read more
Morocco and Senegal have inked several cooperation deals meant to bolster partnership between the two countries in the fields of agriculture, fisheries and other socioeconomic sectors. These cooperation agreements were signed in Dakar Monday and Tuesday under the co-chairmanship of Read more