MBC Media Solutions (MMS), the commercial arm of MBC Group — the largest and leading media company in the Middle East and North Africa — announced its partnership with Viaccess-Orca & Equativ to empower the monetisation of Shahid, MBC GROUP’s streaming platform. Shahid is the world’s leading Arabic streaming platform offering its 15 million monthly unique viewers globally a wide range of premium content and entertainment across all genres, to cater to every taste out there. As part of the partnership, Viaccess-Orca and Equativ will have access to Shahid’s AVOD inventory outside of GCC & Egypt countries by connecting brands with audiences through its premium content. Nadim Samara, chief operating officer at MMS said: "We are thrilled to announce our strategic partnership with Equativ through Viaccess-Orca. This partnership exemplifies our commitment to connect brands with audiences through premium content.

Share Comment on this story CommentThe United Nations, the World Bank, U.S. President Joe Biden — everyone seems to be talking about the Global South these days. Australia and New Zealand, both in the southern hemisphere, are not in the Global South. For the U.N., Global South is something of a shortcut to refer to developing countries in general, Traeger said. AdvertisementThe term Global South first appeared in the 1960s, but took time to gain traction. “There is every danger that the Global South will end up becoming a weapon in the hands of revisionist states, like China, who would want to use the voice of the Global South to promote their great power interests,” says Happymon Jacob.

Penn introduces Middle East major concentration, data science minor in CollegePenn has expanded its major and minor offerings for the 2023-24 academic school year. Credit: Abhiram JuvvadiPenn students can now major and minor in Near Eastern languages and culture: cultures and societies of the Middle East and North Africa, minor in data science and analytics, and pursue sociology as a STEM major. Data Science and AnalyticsAccording to Penn’s minors catalog, the new data science and analytics minor is meant to complement any of the already offered natural and social sciences majors. Sociology as a STEM MajorAccording to Penn’s Department of Sociology, the sociology major centers around social structure and understanding human behavior patterns. A part of the major teaches students the tools needed for social science research, including ethnography, social statistics, and demographics.

Estimates of how far wine output has fallen vary, from a roughly 20% drop according to the Agriculture Ministry's Kilani Belhaj, to a reduction of 40-50% according to Vineyard Producers' Syndicate head Salim Chaouch. Winemakers in France and elsewhere in southern Europe have also warned of lower wine output this year due to the heat. "Climate change has impacted both the quantity and quality of production, with a broad effect on the sector. In ancient times Tunisia was a major wine producer under the Carthaginian and Roman empires and commercial-scale output began again under French colonialism, though it has not become a significant exporter. The grapes are picked early in the morning and driven to a modern processing facility at Takelsa in central Tunisia to be turned into wine.

Advanced Intelligent Automation (IA) virtual agents shift the burden of repetitive, rules-based queries and work away from human agents. They will free up human agents’ time to focus on higher-value conversations that impact customer relationships and brand loyalty, something South Africans are particularly good at. And while the answers or actions that the latest chatbots can provide are impressive, they don’t perform like human agents,” he says. Human agents can act as both assistants and advisors to customers. Virtual agents are increasingly being used to automate the high volume, time-urgent, and repetitive conversations that human agents are still being forced to have.

Joshua Harris, US Deputy Under Secretary of State for North Africa, is visiting Morocco to hold several meetings with senior Moroccan officials, with the question of Western Sahara as one of the important issues to be discussed. Subsequently, Joe Biden's current administration has maintained the same line and also strongly supports the work for dialogue between all parties involved led by Staffan de Mistura, the UN secretary general's personal envoy for Western Sahara. On this issue, the American giant supported the Moroccan kingdom's proposal for Western Sahara under Donald Trump's presidency. Morocco considers Western Sahara a part of its southern territory and proposes a formula of broad autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty to settle the Saharawi dispute and develop the territory to the maximum. Under this formula, the Saharawis would have a great capacity for self-government, reserving security and foreign policy powers for the Moroccan state.

We deliver cutting edge analysis and intelligence so you can stay ahead of the news. Take it from them: I can't emphasize enough my appreciation for you and the rest of the staff at Geopolitical Futures. Kevin G. Some times the politics and journalism of the world gets in the way of clear thinking (at my own peril). Full accessto our content With any paid subscription you get full access to our entire content. In the years ahead, Moscow’s ability to project power in the Black Sea basin will decline, and one of the main beneficiaries will be Turkey.

Frontex, the EU border agency has revealed that migrant arrivals are expected to increase in the upcoming years with economic reasons being the main push factor. For 2023 and 2024, Frontex anticipates migration activity along the eastern and central Mediterranean routes, as these two routes are more exposed to migration flows to the EU external borders. Other nationalities that were the most detected for illegal border crossings include Pakistanis, Indians, Tunisians, Ukrainians, Nigerians, Congolese and Moroccans. The report further reveals that new arrivals at border crossings were mainly men (171,157) compared to women (12,318). There are several factors that impact the low number of effective returns in 2022, but the war in Ukraine is the leading one, as the report by Frontex reveals.

Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmad Aboul Gheit, praised in the report presented Wednesday to the Arab League Ministerial Council, Morocco’s efforts to settle the Libyan crisis, and its hosting meetings of the Libyan 6+6 Joint Committee for Preparing Electoral Laws, on May 22 – June 7 in Bouznika. The resolution of the Arab League Ministerial Council has hailed the Kingdom’s efforts as an “important step forward.”The resolution also highlighted the importance of the full implementation of the Libyan political agreement, signed in 2015 in Skhirate, as a basis for a political solution in Libya. In the field of the fight against terrorism, the Arab League Council calls for continuing to benefit from the Mohammed VI Foundation of African Ulema and the Mohammed VI Institute for the training of Imams, Morchidines and Morchidates in Morocco, welcoming Morocco’s decision to host the United Nations Office for Counter-Terrorism and Training in Africa (UNOCT). The Council also adopted the joint resolution submitted by the Kingdom of Morocco, Libya and the United Arab Emirates entitled “Prohibiting all advocacy of religious hatred, stressing the need to prevent, at the international level, contempt for religions, and calling on the international community to ensure a balance in the application of the relevant international conventions”. The Arab League Ministerial Council was held under the chairmanship ofMorocco.

Morocco has called on Arab countries to respect neighborliness and territorial integrity of Arab league member countries to counter the current regional & international challenges. Addressing the Arab League Council of foreign ministers which convened Wednesday in Cairo under the chairmanship of the Kingdom, Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita said the complex crises affecting Arab countries require inter-Arab coordination and a common vision based on a strong political will, neighborliness and respect of national sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Arab states. Morocco’s top diplomat said his country, under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, is pushing for regional partnership and cooperation to enable Arab countries to address common development challenges. The Royal vision for Arab cooperation, which is based on a solidarity strategy, seeks to create an atmosphere conducive to the settlement of bilateral disputes, advancing joint Arab action and building trust among Arab countries, explained Bourita. The Council of the Arab League also expressed full support for Morocco’s bid to chair the 18th session of Human Rights Council in 2024.

Nissan is using old Leaf batteries in portable power packs developed with electronics maker JVCKenwood and 4R Energy, a company owned by Nissan and Sumitomo, which works on power storage systems. Most recently, in Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, Nissan and Enel installed 48 used Leaf batteries and 30 new battery packs as backup energy storage to prevent power supply interruption. Old Nissan batteries also power Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) in a car factory in Oppama, Japan. Nissan signed an agreement with the University of Santa Catarina in Brazil in 2018 to explore the potential use of Leaf batteries as part of energy storage solutions. In the Netherlands, the Amsterdam Arena is powered by Leaf batteries with a 2.8 MWh battery storage system.

Egypt is looking forward to securing new external financing ranging between $1.5 and $2 billion, including $1 billion by issuing Samurai and Panda bonds by the end of 2023, Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait said in an interview with Asharq Business. Maait noted that the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will provide a credit guarantee of around $230 million for Egypt’s anticipated Panda bond issuance. In August, the Egyptian cabinet approved the issuance of five-year JPY-denominated bonds worth $500 million. Earlier this year, it was reported that Egypt could issue $500 million worth of panda bonds in the Chinese market in the first quarter (Q1) of the fiscal year (FY) 2023/2024. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info).

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The African fintech space saw 26 startup acquisitions between June 2021 and July 2023, up 271 per cent on just seven in the preceding two-year period, with M&A activity in the sector really hotting up. Disrupt Africa’s Finnovating for Africa publication, released every two years since June 2017, tracks the extraordinary development of the fintech ecosystem across Africa. Twenty-six ventures were bought out in the last 24 months, up from just seven in the preceding two-year period between 2019 and 2021. Nigeria was the location for the flagship fintech acquisition of recent years – Paystack’s reported US$200 million acquisition by Stripe in 2020, a big moment that ignited increased interest in the continent’s fintech space. “These numbers are obviously still relatively small compared to more developed ecosystems, but the near-on quadrupling of fintech acquisitions within a two-year period is a significant statistic.

Bengaluru, September 07, 2023 – Hitachi Energy India Limited (Hitachi Energy) has won a contract from Ayana Renewable Power one of the leading Independent Power Producers in the country to provide a grid connection solution for their upcoming 300-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic power plant in Bikaner, Rajasthan. "This project from Ayana Renewable Power is another step towards an integrated renewable energy system. The world is rapidly realizing that renewable energy is essential to deliver on the promise of a carbon-neutral future while maintaining energy security. "Hitachi Energy is championing the urgency of the energy transition by pioneering technologies to help accelerate a carbon-neutral future." In India Hitachi Energy operates under the legal entity name Hitachi Energy India Limited (formerly known as ABB Power Products and Systems India Limited) and is listed on the National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE) and BSE Limited (BSE) as POWERINDIA, Scrip code 543187.https://www.hitachienergy.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/hitachienergyhttps://twitter.com/HitachiEnergyAbout Hitachi, Ltd.Hitachi drives Social Innovation Business, creating a sustainable society with data and technology.