CAIRO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL EXPANDS ARAB CINEMA PROGRAMME

The Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) management has decided to expand the Horizons of Arab Cinema Horizons. This new step is to support and highlight Arab cinema, which has been experiencing a remarkable leap in recent years that resulted in its being represented in major international festivals, CIIF website reports. CIFF management has announced that, as per the festival’s advisory board recommendations, this expansion will take place through three decisions: raising the number of films from 8 to 12; introducing two new awards to be given to the best non-fiction…

IFC OPENS CONSULTATIONS TO DEVELOP TUNISIA’S GREEN BOND MARKET

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Tunisia’s Financial Market Council have kicked off a series of consultations to develop guiding principles for a green bond market in the country. This comes after reports surfaced of authorities seeking to introduce environmentally related products into the capital market, venturesafrica reports in an article. Similar to traditional corporate and public treasury bonds, green bonds have an additional social and sustainable feature of allowing the financing of climate change projects with positive social spin-offs. The sustainable finance instrument was introduced some ten years ago. Over the years, trading in…