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Algeria urged to do more coronavirus tests

Algeria is not doing enough tests, which makes it hard to assess the scale of the coronavirus outbreak in the country, head of Pasteur Institute in Algeria and doctors said. The North African country conducts 400 tests daily for a population of some 37 million people. It has so far confirmed 5558 cases with a […]

Algeria: building a sustainable new city

Algeria will be building a new city with the name El-Menia in Constantine, with a budget of $2.4 billion over a 1.2 million sq m development project. The city is designed by Canadian firms Exp and Lemay with the aim of making it a sustainable new community and reducing its carbon footprint as much as […]

Taqa Morocco plans 1 GW of green energy by 2030

Taqa Morocco SA, a leading energy company in Morocco, said on Wednesday it plans to develop 1 gigawatt (GW) of wind and solar projects by 2030 to support the country’s energy transition goals. The company’s CEO Abdelmajid Iraqui Houssaini told Bloomberg that Taqa Morocco SA is also looking into investing in desalination projects to tackle […]