The non-public fairness fund will put money into fast-growing SMEs, primarily in North Africa. At the least 1 / 4 of the fund’s invested capital is earmarked for women-owned or led companies. The Tunis-based fund, which has attracted commitments from plenty of European establishments and the IFC, is a successor to SPE’s Africa Industrialization Fund |…
The parable that queerness is un-African, or Western, persists in most (North) African societies. In actuality, LGBTQ+ folks and communities have all the time been part of Africa. Colonialism compelled Western binaries and homophobia on colonized societies, and its remnants proceed to hang-out and endanger queer folks throughout the continent. In lots of Northern African…
Professional-Palestinian rallies, each organized and spontaneous, in response to the battle between Israel and Gaza-based militant teams have taken the MENA area by storm. In North Africa, demonstrators gathered in Algeria, Libya, and Morocco to point out help in favour of Palestine. “Your complete Algerian individuals are in solidarity with the Palestinian folks and stand…
MENASource June 25, 2024 • 1:51 pm ET Print this web page A world in disaster is nice information for North Africa’s political elites By Alia Brahimi and Karim Mezran In an period of great world turbulence and intense human tragedy, North African governments have demonstrated that there’s alternative in disaster. Till lately, the regimes…
In 2024, younger North African musicians proceed to reclaim and reinvent their cultural heritage, breaking the older technology’s deal with Western types. Whereas rap is the dominating sound throughout the area, all through genres, artists fuse conventional devices and native rhythms like Algerian raï or Egyptian Mahraganat with world musical influences like electronica and pop….
PodcastPodcast, The Take For years, Black migrants have been deserted within the Sahara. Now, an investigation exhibits the European Union is concerned. A sprawling new investigation paperwork systemic police abuse towards Black folks migrating to Europe – all with the backing of a not-so-silent accomplice, the European Union. On this episode: Episode credit: This episode…
Ilaria Manunza has seen floods in Niger get extra intense and extra frequent in recent times. For a spot so reliant on agriculture, a altering local weather presents important challenges, particularly towards a backdrop of fractured governance and an already susceptible financial system. Altering climate patterns have contributed to instability that has pushed battle between…
Morocco’s lethal quake, Libya’s lethal floods, 30 years since Oslo Accords – right here’s the Center East this week. Deadliest quake since 1960 in Morocco | Libya’s greatest environmental catastrophe in fashionable historical past | Three many years since Oslo Accords. Right here’s the Center East this week: ‘Life is completed’ in quake-battered Morocco Within…
AFRICA/MOROCCO – Meeting of the Bishops of North Africa involves an finish Rabat (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of the Regional Episcopal Convention handled the synodal course of, a theological reflection on the lifetime of the Church buildings of the Maghreb and the reception and implementation of the Declaration “Fiducia Supplicans” of the Dicastery for…
Rescued migrants sit in a ship of the Italian Finance Police on Monday earlier than disembarking on the port of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, southern Italy. The Italian Cupboard met Monday to undertake new measures to crack down on migration after the southern island of Lampedusa was once more overwhelmed by a wave of…