Wamda

Egypt

Bekia raises six-figure investment

Source: Startup Scene Cairo-based tech-powered waste management services startup Bekia has raised six-dollar-figure investment from Oman...

Algeria

Unemployment rate in Algeria increased to 10.5 percent, reaches almost 27 percent of the youth, and 20 percent of women, according to...

Egypt

Rubbish piled in the streets and beside waterways is a common sight in many of Egypt's cities and rural areas. (Image via...

U.A.E

The Green Truck warehouse. (Image via Green Truck) The UAE has one of the highest per capita waste generation rates in the world. Putting...

Lebanon

Lebanon's trash piles up in the streets. (Image via Al Arabiya) Trash is piling up in the streets of Beirut and across Lebanon,...

Maghreb

Jennifer Gadient and Fabian Wyss in front of their Ultimaker 3D printer. (Image via Aline Mayard) It’s 6pm on the beach at Taghazout, a f...

Egypt

Following last week's agritech overview, we profile five up-and-coming businesses from the startups seeking to revolutionize the way...

This article has been cross posted with Knowledge@Wharton. Food scraps. Refrigerators. Stoves. Dead animals. Fishermen’s nets. The in...