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Mbabane Smart City & 5G Project

Backed by a $2m (E36-38m) Taiwanese grant, Mbabane's Smart City project (agreements signed March 2024, operations centre live May 2025) has installed 50 IP surveillance cameras at key intersections, four free WiFi zones and river-based disaster-detection sensors — and won Taipei's Best Smart City Project award in March 2026.

Live 📅 since 2024

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📡 Data & IoTConnectivity & 5GSafety & security
Scale🏙️ City-wide

📖 Terms in this entry: ANPR (automatic number-plate recognition) · CBTC (communications-based train control) · Grades of Automation (GoA)

Sources

↗ Mbabane City Council (authority)Official city website.
↗ Eswatini Positive News — Eswatini Goes SmartLaunch coverage: 50 IP cameras, 4 WiFi zones, control centre, 5G upgrade.
↗ Inside Biz — Taiwan Invests E36 MillionIndependent corroboration of 50 IP cameras and the E36m Taiwan grant.
↗ TechReview Africa — Eswatini wins global smart city award in TaipeiMarch 2026: independent confirmation of the Best Smart City Project award for the Mbabane pilot, received at the Taipei Smart City Summit and Expo.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇨🇫 Sub-Riverine Fiber Connection Ring · Bangui Different donors, same continent: Bangui's fibre ring cost AfDB and the EU about $36M, Mbabane's project a $2M Taiwanese grant. 🇲🇦 Casablanca Urban Video Surveillance Network · Casablanca Both are camera-and-command-centre builds funded outside police budgets — Mbabane's by a Taiwanese grant, Casablanca's by its region. 🇵🇭 Smart City Phase II Control Center · San Fernando City Both bundle CCTV, disaster sensors and connectivity into one small-city command centre — Mbabane's cost $2M, San Fernando's cost P220M.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Mbabane Smart City & 5G Project” — Mbabane, Eswatini. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/mbabane-municipal-gis/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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