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Maghreb

Toufik Lerari, the entrepreneur who believes communication is Algeria's future

Toufik Lerari is one of those Algerian entrepreneurs who are changing the way foreigners and Algerians alike see the oil-producing...

Fikra Allégorie communication

Maghreb

AMPION launches 4 road trip hackathons throughout Africa, to educate and invest in entrepreneurs

Last year, a diverse crowd of 30 Africans and Europeans embarked on an unusual adventure: they hopped a bus leaving from...

Ampion hackathon Startupbus

Maghreb

Entrepreneurs learn a lesson in storytelling at #YMEstartup Tunis

Walking through the doors of Tunisia’s Elgazala Technopark on Monday October 13th, there was one thing I couldn’t help but not...

events your middle east #YMEStartup

Maghreb

Bolstered by one failure and two pivots, this Moroccan entrepreneur wants to become your temporary CTO

The name Yassine El Kachchani should sound familiar to Wamda’s readers. He's one of the earliest Moroccan entrepreneurs, and his first v...

Pivot Failure

Maghreb

Is a traditional European delivery system the answer to MENA's payment and delivery woes?

Ecommerce in the Arab world is in a particularly fascinating and exciting phase. Everybody knows it’s bound to boom, and wants to be a...

CoD cash-on-delivery Online delivery

Maghreb

OuiShare Meetup #1 Casablanca - Morocco

After Damascus, Beirut, and Algiers, OuiShare, the open global community of sharing economy passionates, is heading to Casablanca. For its ...

collaborative economy Sharing Economy Ouishare

Maghreb

Could Jumia be the Alibaba of Africa?

Alibaba’s successful IPO fixed everyone’s attention firmly on e-commerce in fast-growing markets, and especially on marketplaces, like eBa...

Jumia marketplace Rocket Internet

Maghreb

Students swarm Tunisia's first major tech event

Over two days last week, Tunisian IT and engineering students, investors, developers and software designers, and representatives of...

event tunisia

Maghreb

4 reasons foreign investors should consider Morocco

Morocco has been attracting increased foreign investment recently, thanks to its reassuring macroeconomic status and an economy that is...

foreign investment morocco

Maghreb

The Diamond Challenge in Tunisia

The Diamond Challenge is a real world business concept competition that will provide high school students with an outstanding opportunity...

tunisia

Maghreb

Behind the scenes at Rocket Internet's eBay in North Africa

When we hear about Rocket Internet, it’s usually related to massive fundraising, aggressive strategies, and management style (check out o...

Kaymu Rocket Internet

Maghreb

OuiShare Drink Beirut

OuiShare is organizing the first get-together for people interested in collaborative consumption, makers, fablabs, crowdfunding,...

beirut events collaborative economy

Maghreb

Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus kicks off global accelerator program in Tunisia

As Tunisia begins to overturn years of economic inefficiencies, stagnant creativity, and systemic corruption, entrepreneurship has begun...

accelerator tunisia Social Entrepreneurship

Maghreb

Café Carrefour Tunisia

Café Carrefour Tunisia is a series of meetings that gather founders of innovative projects, local collectivities, investors and companies a...

Maghreb

Is Algeria ready to join the entrepreneurial race?

When I shared my plans of heading to Algeria to meet startups on Twitter I received puzzled responses, like one man who couldn’t believe s...

algeria

Maghreb

Moroccan social entrepreneurship struggling, MCISE study says

Social entrepreneurship in Morocco is as trendy in certain circles as it is unknown to the vast majority of people. Despite this...

Maghreb

A co-working space to develop the Tunisian entrepreneurial ecosystem

Who better than entrepreneurs to solve Tunisia’s most pressing social, economic and environmental challenges and contribute to t...

tunisia Coworking Coworking Spaces

Maghreb

In Tunisia, an entrepreneur fights desertification and creates spaces for women to succeed

“When I was young I was fascinated by superheroes. They not only have extraordinary powers but there is always a strong morale… a sense of ...

desertification tunisia Environment

Maghreb

3 ways Moroccan online gift retailer Mescadeaux is acquiring customers

When Youssef Hassar got married last year, there was only one problem: he and his wife couldn’t agree on the wedding list. His wife w...

Gifts Lean Methodology E-commerce

Maghreb

Is the Arab World ready for a collaborative economy? This Syrian student says yes.

Would you be ready to carpool? Lend your house or your hammer to someone you don’t know? Give a few hours of your time to teach someone? C...

Sharing Economy Hacker Culture Crowdsourcing

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