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Business
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Markets & Companies
5/10/2022 8:40:59 PM
A consortium of investors that includes Amethis, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and SPE Capital has acquired a majority stake of the Egypt-based GlobalCorp, a non-banking financial services provider, the parties announced on Tuesday in a joint statement.
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Business
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Economy
5/10/2022 3:47:00 PM
Egypt-based Paymob, a financial services for merchants platform, raised $50 million in Series B funding, which the platform will use to grow its product range, expanding in the Egyptian market as well as into new markets across the Middle East and Africa region.
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Life & Style
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Health
5/8/2022 6:13:16 PM
A whistleblower group is accusing Facebook of deliberately blocking websites for Australian hospitals and emergency services.
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World
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Africa
4/24/2022 12:24:02 PM
An explosion at an illegal oil refinery in southern Nigeria has killed at least 80 people, the emergency services said on Sunday.
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Egypt
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Society
4/19/2022 9:36:46 PM
The use of mobile and fixed internet services increased by 68 and 39 percent respectively within a 24-hour-period in Ramadan 2022 compared to last Ramadan, the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) said in its April report.
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World
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International
4/12/2022 12:25:53 AM
France is expelling six Russians suspected of working as spies under diplomatic cover after the French intelligence services uncovered a clandestine operation on its territory, the foreign ministry said on Monday.
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Egypt
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Politics
4/11/2022 5:51:38 PM
Following over a month of debates, Egypt's Senate approved on Monday a new government-drafted unified insurance law, which one MP described as necessary to cover a host of professions and services recently introduced into the insurance industry.
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World
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International
4/6/2022 12:27:00 PM
Public transport largely ground to a halt in the Greek capital Wednesday and state-run services remained shuttered as workers walked off the job in a 24-hour general strike to protest rising prices.
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World
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Region
3/29/2022 3:12:29 PM
Israeli security services raided the homes of at least 12 Arab citizens and arrested two suspected of having ties to the Islamic State group in a crackdown sparked by recent deadly attacks, authorities said Tuesday.
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World
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Region
3/21/2022 5:33:07 PM
A head-on collision between two passenger trains injured 95 people Monday in the south of the Tunisian capital, emergency services said.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
3/18/2022 4:47:28 PM
The U.N. health chief decried the devastating consequences of war on the Ukrainian people who are facing severe disruption to services and medication and stressed that "the life-saving medicine we need right now is peace.''
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Business
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Markets & Companies
3/17/2022 4:02:22 PM
Amazon Web Services (AWS) conducted a case study about Floward, the go-to online flowers and gifts delivery destination in MENA and UK, on how Floward utilised their cloud services to meet their growing needs.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/16/2022 9:29:23 AM
Several explosions rocked Kyiv early Wednesday, according to AFP journalists in the city, with emergency services saying two residential buildings were damaged and two people wounded.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/15/2022 9:21:11 AM
Strikes on residential areas in Kyiv killed at least two people early on Tuesday, emergency services said, as Russian troops intensified their attacks on the Ukrainian capital.
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World
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International
3/14/2022 7:58:20 PM
Slovakia's Foreign Ministry says it has decided to expel three Russian diplomats following its assessment of information from the country's intelligence services on possible spying and bribery.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
3/14/2022 12:41:00 PM
Egypt’s increased investment in digitisation is enabling the wider outreach of financial services.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/12/2022 5:45:13 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has expressed Egypt's support for the role played by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in offering services for Palestinian refugees.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/10/2022 6:58:16 PM
Russia's two-week-long war in Ukraine has killed thousands of soldiers and civilians and forced more than 2 million people to flee the country, shaking the foundations of European security. Across Ukraine, civilians still trapped in besieged or destroyed areas are suffering from electricity outages and shortages of food, medicines and other vital services.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
3/6/2022 9:24:35 PM
US credit card and payments giant American Express said Sunday it is suspending its operations in Russia and Belarus over Moscow's "unjustified" attack on Ukraine, the latest financial services blow to Russia over its invasion.
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Business
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Tech
3/6/2022 5:54:25 PM
The number of e-wallets grew in the Egyptian market over the past three years to record 26 million, up from nine million in previous years, with 23 banks introducing related services, Sub-Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Ihab Nasr stated on Sunday.
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