From an accelerating regional space race, another telecom entering the banking sector, to the largest Ferris wheel in Africa – it’s another exciting day in the MENA+
Here’s a look at today's biggest tech stories in the MENA+

- Israeli PM to visit UAE, Bahrain ahead of elections
- Magnitt: UAE attracts most VC funding in MENA
- IPO activity to surge in 2021
- HH Sheikh Mohammed launches DEWA space initiative
- 2M vaccinated for Covid – amongst highest rates in the world

- Virgin Mobile, Saudi Investment Bank partner on payments app
- Program HQ tries to persuade multinationals to relocate to Riyadh
- UNWTO: only 8% of region’s tourism workforce are women
- SAMA issues regulations on debt crowdfunding
- Al Ula expecting 90,000 tourists as domestic tourism booms

- Banks prevented from issuing dividends
- Biggest Ferris Wheel in Africa to open in Cairo
- Hanafy El-Gebaly is new Speaker of the House
- Pandemic rumors made up 51% of fake news in 2020

- FATF asks for plan to be completed by 2/2021
- JazzCash to offer stock trading via app in Q2
- 97% ▲in VC funding in 2020 driven by Airlift, Bykea
- Draft of Digital Pakistan 2021 policy issued
- Human error behind national blackout