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Sub-Saharan Africa faces grave hunger challenges in 2020 -WFP

The World Food Program has warned in its 2020 Global Hotspots Report that millions of people in Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central Sahel region will require life-saving food assistance in the coming months. The sheer scale and complexity of the needs will stretch the UN food relief agency’s capacity to […]

Morocco’s dam filling rate climbs to 70.6% after heavy winter rains

Morocco’s dams reached a national filling rate of 70.6% on Feb. 16 after a new surge in water reserves driven by heavy winter rainfall, official data showed. Total storage climbed to 11.83 billion cubic metres, up 899 million m³ from Feb. 7. The sharp rise was led by the country’s largest reservoirs. Al Wahda, Morocco’s […]

Siemens Cuts Ribbon of Wind Turbine Blade Factory in Tangier

Siemens has inaugurated the first Turbine Blade Factory in the northern Moroccan city of Tangier that was completed for a total cost of $118 million. Built over a surface area of 37,500 square meters, the new factory is the first of its kind in North Africa and the Middle East and will offer 600 jobs […]