Healthtech: 3 Moroccan startups win Gates Foundation funding

Moroccan companies DeepEcho, Medevice and Sorbus are among the winners of grants awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support African health innovators seeking to optimize supply chains, improve access to medicines and advance towards universal health coverage. Twenty-seven other healthtech start-ups have been selected to benefit from a $7 million program (i3) […]

At African Cup of Nations, Algeria stages media circus

The African Cup of Nations hosted in Morocco is uniting Africans under the banner of sport. But Algeria has a different opinion. The country, ruled by anti-Morocco men in uniform, have portrayed the tournament in its official media as a political theater, proving that when diplomacy is in tatters, football can be weaponized. From the […]

Morocco’s aerospace industry prepares for post-Covid recovery – Reuters

Morocco has an active aerospace industry cluster which saw exports dip due to the pandemic but operators started to see light at the end of the tunnel, wrote Reuters in a spotlight on the industry. Morocco has set up clusters for aerospace part manufacturers that supply Boeing, Airbus and Safran. So far, Morocco produces 38% […]