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Mayon Volcano ashfall potentially affected 1,230 hectares of Albay crops as field checks confirmed rising farm losses and wider disruption.

Asian Development Bank pledged $30 billion through 2030 to help ASEAN expand energy links, deepen markets and build resilience regionally.

UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker held talks on partnership, trade, energy and security.

Egypt gains new World Bank funding to boost private sector jobs, strengthen fiscal stability and support greener growth goals nationwide.

Space42 says local assembly and testing of Foresight satellites in Abu Dhabi show the UAE is building stronger space manufacturing capability.

NKWA digital infrastructure initiative combines EFGH’s embedded finance technology with Nosmay’s local operational and regulatory expertise to support Ghana’s fiscal digitalization and decentralized development agendaPlatform to enter Bank of Ghana Regulatory Sandbox testing and regulatory progression, followed by phased commercial launch and scaling across institutional levy collection use casesSeparately, EFGH announced it would make voluntary social investment contributions equivalent to 10% of its Ghana-derived revenues to the District Assemblies Common Fund’s (“DACF”) Community Partners’ Fund for Public Interest Projects nationwideACCRA, Ghana and SINGAPORE, May 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Embed Financial Group Holdings Pte. Ltd. (“EFGH” or the “Company”), a Singapore-headquartered financial internet infrastructure…

UniHouse launches Ostathi in Jordan, the first digital infrastructure linking workforce development to verified income through an auditable digital ledger.

ABUJA, Nigeria and VIENNA, May 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Euphoria Press, the prime contractor for the ECOWAS National Biometric ID Card (ENBIC) project in Nigeria under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) framework, has successfully led the design, development, and deployment of the nationwide identity ecosystem, officially launched on 28 November 2025. As the backbone of the ENBIC programme, Euphoria Press delivered a comprehensive, end-to-end solution covering biometric enrolment infrastructure, identity data management systems, secure card production, and integration with national security and immigration frameworks.To support the personalisation layer of the project, Austrian State Printing Company (OSD) provided its advanced personalisation platform, contributing to…

UAE President Sheikh Mohamed and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis discussed investment, AI and regional security in Abu Dhabi.

Nikkei 225 ended at a record high after a holiday break, with semiconductor-linked stocks leading gains across Tokyo equities on Thursday.