Moroccan Prime Minister Saadeddine Othmani stressed his government’s commitment to “improving the business climate for Moroccan as well as foreign investors”. “We are ready to facilitate and improve the business...

The World Bank has announced a new project to provide Gaza‘s unemployed youth with short-term income support, the Palestinian Information Centre has said. About 4,400 targeted youth, half of...

The inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the Jordanian market has fallen by 54 per cent during the first quarter of the current financial year 2017-18, the Central...

Tunisia and Germany yesterday signed a €100 million ($119 million) loan agreement to support budgets and reforms in the financial and banking sectors. According to a statement distributed to...

Marie Francoise Marie Nelly, the World Bank Country Director for the Maghreb and Malta, predicted that Tunisia’s economy would grow by 2.5 per cent in 2018. In response to...

The Egyptian Minister of Education, Tarek Shawki, yesterday announced the approval of a $500 million loan from the World Bank to support education development in the country. The loan...

The standard of living in the West Bank is stagnating, after rising significantly in previous years, according to a report released by the World Bank earlier today, which also...

Egypt has received the third and final $1 billion tranche of a $3 billion loan from the World Bank, the Minister of Investment and International Cooperation announced yesterday. Sahar...

Egypt Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry proposed the World Bank be included as a neutral and decisive party in the tripartite technical committee’s talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam....

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved the provision of a $200mn loan to accelerate the transformation of the food industry towards a higher added value and...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank said at least half of the world’s population, 3.5 billion people, do not have access to basic health services. In...

Even in the absence of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, steps can be taken now that could significantly brighten a gloomy Palestinian economic situation, the World Bank said on Tuesday....

Kuwait has started extensive contacts with the World Bank to prepare for hosting a donor conference for the reconstruction of the Iraqi areas that have been liberated from Daesh...

The government of Sudan announced yesterday that the value of World Bank-funded projects in the country has reached $150 million, of which $76 million is in support of basic...

The World Bank on Tuesday approved a $500 million loan to support Tunisia’s budget, a government official for the North African country said on Tuesday. The funding followed the...

The World Bank has given Sudan $5 million in an attempt to boost the country’s financial anti-corruption policies, Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported. The grant, which was formally signed on...

A senior delegation from the United Kingdom have arrived in Sudan to begin the second phase of strategic dialogue with government officials, a press release from the British Embassy...

Egypt aims to obtain $9 billion in foreign financing in the fiscal year 2017-18, the Deputy Finance Minister, Ahmed Kouchouk, revealed today. In an interview with the Cairo-based Al-Borsa,...

The World Bank has disbursed another $1 billion in financial assistance to Egypt out of its $3 billion loan programme with the country, the bank said in a statement...

Egypt will receive the second tranche of the World Bank’s loan agreement amounting to $1 billion within the next few days, the bank’s Country Director for Egypt Asaad Alem...

The World Bank’s board of executive directors has approved a second $1 billion disbursement of a $3 billion loan package to Egypt, a statement from the World Bank Group...

Ambassadors from nearly two dozen European Union countries have called for an end to the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip as the Palestinian enclave has been hard hit...

Protests erupted yesterday in the Western Sahara over the construction of renewable energy plants without the permission of the Sahrawi people. The protests, which took place in the capital...

Daesh fighters are more educated than their average countryman according to a new World Bank study. Entitled “Economic and Social Inclusion to Prevent Violent Extremism”, the study looks at...