Morocco Distributes Satellite Phones to Remote Villages for Winter Communication

In its national policy of ensuring the accommodation of the homeless, the supply of firewood and the mobilization of mobile medical units, the Ministry of the Interior has distributed 150 satellite phones in douars threatened with isolation during the winter season.

The Delegate Minister to the Minister of the Interior, Noureddine Boutayeb, in his response to a question from the CDT on the cold wave that isolates the hard-to-reach regions, informed the House of Advisors on Tuesday that it is to ensure permanent contact with the inhabitants that his department had distributed satellite phones in all the affected douars. He also noted that there is no longer any territorial or telephone isolation in Morocco today.

Boutayeb stressed that Morocco has had a national plan to fight the cold for ten years, updated and improved each year. A national commission oversees it permanently, in order to provide the necessary services to citizens living in these difficult areas.

This commission, adds Boutayeb, identified at the beginning of the current winter season 1,753 douars, spread over 32 communes in 27 provinces, likely to experience problems due to access difficulties.