The UNDP yesterday launched its Development Impact Accelerator Lab in Egypt, which aims to support individual and institutional innovators working to address the UN’s sustainable development goals, according to a cabinet statement. The lab joins a network of 90 other accelerators across the world that partner with governments, private sector players and civil society groups

Other things we’re keeping an eye on this morning:

  • Banque Misr has signed an agreement with Saudi SME fintech player Geidea to provide payment and e-commerce services to its clients, Hapi Journal reported.
  • The transmission capacity of wireless networks between Egypt and Sudan will be improved under a MoU signed yesterday between Telecom Egypt and Sudatel Telecom Group.
  • Journalist Sulafa Magdy and her husband photojournalist Hossam El Sayyad were released by authorities on Monday pending investigation, after they had been held in 2019 in a pre-trial detention on charges of joining a terrorist group and reporting fake news.
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