Morocco’s state telecoms regulator has fined Maroc Telecom MAD3.6bn (US$375mn), two years after Inwi sued the telco in March 2018 for uncompetitive practices relating to sharing of Maroc Telecom’s fixed network infrastructure. Inwi at the...

The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Health has announced a diagnosis of a coronavirus case in a family from Wuhan in China – the first such publicly announced case in the Middle East. Of Dubai's 16.7mn visitors in 2019, c6% came from...

January started with investor fears of war (Iran) and ended with fear of another horseman of the apocalypse, pestilence (China). Oil prices spiked 4% after the assassination of Iran Quds Force leader, Qassem Soleimani, in a US drone st...

The latest annual World Bank Ease of Doing Business survey, published in full last week, provides useful data points for structural economic reform momentum, if not near-term economic growth or the performance of asset prices. We highlight the follow...

After a long list of crises in the past decade or so, FM and small EM public equities represent a diverse and attractively valued opportunity set, particularly for the active fund manager. Passive funds are not well suited to this niche asset class.&...

Tourist destinations tend to bounce back from security setbacks: Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Morocco, Philippines, Thailand, Tunisia and Turkey are all examples from the frontier and emerging markets in the past two decades. And, of cou...