DUBAI / WAM The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have signed two agreements amounting to $12.5 million (approximately AED46 million) to address the nutrition needs of forcibly displaced people. These bring MBRGI’s cumulative support for refugees to $27.2 million (AED100 million) in two years. The agreement is part ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Emirates Development Bank (EDB), a key financial engine for the economic development and industrial advancement of the UAE, conducted a board meeting to review its results for the period ending December 31, 2022. The board discussed the bank’s milestone achievements over the course of the year, in addition to its ambitions for 2023 as the bank ...

BLOOMBERG Ghana’s cedi, the world’s second-worst performing currency this year, is heading for more pain after the West African nation missed a self-imposed deadline to restructure its bilateral debt and move closer to tapping foreign aid. Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta wanted to reach a restructuring agreement with bilateral creditors by the end of February to help qualify for a $3 ...