OCP & Fraunhofer IMWS sign agreement

African teachers, medics suffer wage cuts due to debt servicing

Severe austerity measures imposed by international financial institutions on some of the poorest African countries led to public spending cuts, which affected the wages of teachers and health workers in particular, ActionAid said. Teachers across Africa are bearing the brunt of austerity, losing up to 50% of their real income over five years, while nearly […]

Benslimane Plant: First batch of vaccine production equipment arrives in Morocco

The first batch of vaccine production equipment from China has been delivered to Morocco Sunday. The equipment will enable the manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines and other products in the plant newly launched in Benslimane. The shipment arrived from Shanghai, China, and will allow the assembly of the biotechnology unit in Benslimane, whose construction works were […]

Angola to install 30,000 solar energy production systems

The Angolan government plans to install about 30,000 solar photovoltaic systems in rural areas to produce 600 MW of electricity in the Central African nation. According to Angolan Minister of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges, the government was considering increasing the rate of access to electricity, especially in rural areas. Currently, less than 40% […]