Insecurity along Sudan’s roads has taken a toll on the country’s trucking industry. According to an assessment conducted by the United Nations Joint Logistics Center (UNJLC) in Sudan, two out …
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In three years, Khadija Boutarbash’s life has been transformed. Once an economically vulnerable ambulant seller of handicrafts, she is now a proud entrepreneur who has expanded her family-run small enterprise …
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With a 46% poverty rate and slack security situation, Mauritania is an at-risk nation whose significance to global investors and statesmen is at an all-time high. The sparsely populated Islamic …
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Tunisia’s creation of a small-cap alternative market is part of an overall strategy that aims to promote financial markets as a complementary alternative to stock market financing of small-and medium-sized …
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There is no doubt that this year’s Cityscape Dubai was big. For the first time in its seven-year history the event was open for four days and drew a record-breaking …
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Widespread ATM fraud has caused panic across the UAE. The fraud is thought to have started after a network, in which banks share sensitive information such as customer pins, was …
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Anumber of analysts have indicated that the highly speculative, off-plan luxury segment of the Dubai real estate market would be the first sector hit in a housing price slump. This …
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‘Endemic’ is probably the best word to describe corruption in the Middle East. From Iraq to Morocco the bane of corruption pervades in all sectors of public and private life …
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The results are in, and the lion’s share of opinions reflects a desire for regional consolidation and assimilation of CSR practices by the private sector. Raji Hattar, chief sustainability and …
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The Gulf countries’ Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) are maturing and growing in importance, but these enormously wealthy bodies have yet to pay serious systematic attention to their corporate social responsibility …