[Daba Finance] eYouth, the Egypt-founded digital learning company, has expanded into Iraq with the launch of eYouth Iraq, introducing the country's first Arabic-language online platform focused on workforce skills development.

[Daba Finance] NowPay is expanding into Saudi Arabia through NowAccess, a joint venture with Tas'heel, the consumer finance unit of United International Holding Company.

[Daba Finance] Valu has signed a short-term financing agreement of up to EGP3 billion, equivalent to about US$63.6 million, with National Bank of Egypt, strengthening its funding base as it expands regionally.

[Daba Finance] KNOT Technologies, an Egypt- and UK-based online ticketing startup, has raised US$1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by A15.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- President Kais Saied received met, Monday, at the Carthage Palace Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriate Affairs, Badr Abdelatty, who is on a visit to Tunisia to participate in the min...

The Rafah border crossing reopened on Sunday, 1 February, allowing movement between Gaza and Egypt for the first time since Israeli forces took control of the crossing in May 2024, according to a statement Israel made on Friday, 30 January.  The cro...

  The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has announced the launch of a new contactless electronic payment service that allows vendors to accept card payments directly through their smartphones or tablets.  The service uses Soft POS applications, which...

Gold prices in Egypt declined over the weekend, tracking a global pullback after a sharp correction in international markets at the end of last week, according to iSagha, a gold pricing platform. The price of 21-carat gold, the local benchmark, fell ...

Smartphones manufactured in Egypt have seen noticeable price increases in recent weeks, rising by an estimated 5 percent to 15 percent, according to the Mobile Phone Traders Division of the Giza Chamber of Commerce. The increase affects several popul...

  Truth is a form of resistance. It may not be a weapon in the literal sense, but it is powerful enough to protect you, enough to ground you when faced with injustice, or with external narratives that attempt to distort, misjudge, or erase what ...