COVID-19: Casablanca to transform international exhibition center into 700-bed hospital

Local authorities in Morocco’s largest city of Casablanca announced their plan to transform an exhibition center into a hospital able to accommodate 700 coronavirus patients. The exhibition center is the largest in Morocco stretching over a surface area of 20,000 square meters, authorities said in a statement. The center will be transformed into a hospital […]

Morocco’s three main telecom operators granted licenses to deploy 5G across the country

Following a public tender launched by the National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (ANRT), Morocco’s three main telecom operators, Maroc Telecom (Itissalat Al-Maghrib), Orange (Médi Telecom), and Wana Corporate (INWI) have been awarded 5G licenses, the agency announced in a statement. Morocco’s Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch, approved the decision after a meeting of the ANRT Board […]

UNDP Launches Regional Stabilization Facility for Lake Chad with $100 M Budget

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) launched the Regional Stabilization Facility for Lake Chad, an ambitious multi-million dollar fund to scale up the range of stabilization intervention in areas of Lake Chad Basin. The four Lake Chad Basin countries (Cameroun, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria) have warmly welcomed this joint initiative, as part of their own […]