Morocco's King Mohammed VI Starts His Four-Nation Tour of West and Central Africa
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ROCKVILLE, Md., May 21, 2015 /Standard Newswire/ -- HM King Mohammed VI arrived on Wednesday in Dakar for a working and friendship visit to Senegal, first leg of an African tour that will take the sovereign to Guinea Bissau, Cote d'Ivoire and Gabon.
This new royal tour in several countries of West and Central Africa is seen as a new testimony of King Mohammed VI's commitment to a win-win south-south cooperation.
The trip comes less than a year after a similar tour, during which the King visited Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, and Gabon and presided over the signing of more than 80 bilateral agreements on trade, agriculture, water, energy, and job training, among other areas. The King had also visited Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, and Gabon in March 2013.
Concerning religious cooperation , Morocco has taken a number of steps to strengthen ties with its African neighbors over the past several years, among them establishing an innovative program in late 2013 to train imams from across the continent, including from Mali, Libya, Tunisia, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, the Maldives, and Nigeria. In March 2015, the King formally opened the Mohammed VI Institute for the Training of Imams, Morchidines, and Morchidates in Rabat, which will welcome students from Morocco, Africa, and the Middle East to promote religious moderation and tolerance in the region.
According to many experts, given the US's strong relationship with Morocco, and that Morocco is the only country in Africa with which the US has a Free Trade Agreement, the US should continue to look to Morocco as a conduit for effective economic and cultural diplomacy on the continent.
ROCKVILLE, Md., May 21, 2015 /Standard Newswire/ -- HM King Mohammed VI arrived on Wednesday in Dakar for a working and friendship visit to Senegal, first leg of an African tour that will take the sovereign to Guinea Bissau, Cote d'Ivoire and Gabon.
This new royal tour in several countries of West and Central Africa is seen as a new testimony of King Mohammed VI's commitment to a win-win south-south cooperation.
The trip comes less than a year after a similar tour, during which the King visited Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, and Gabon and presided over the signing of more than 80 bilateral agreements on trade, agriculture, water, energy, and job training, among other areas. The King had also visited Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, and Gabon in March 2013.
Concerning religious cooperation , Morocco has taken a number of steps to strengthen ties with its African neighbors over the past several years, among them establishing an innovative program in late 2013 to train imams from across the continent, including from Mali, Libya, Tunisia, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, the Maldives, and Nigeria. In March 2015, the King formally opened the Mohammed VI Institute for the Training of Imams, Morchidines, and Morchidates in Rabat, which will welcome students from Morocco, Africa, and the Middle East to promote religious moderation and tolerance in the region.
According to many experts, given the US's strong relationship with Morocco, and that Morocco is the only country in Africa with which the US has a Free Trade Agreement, the US should continue to look to Morocco as a conduit for effective economic and cultural diplomacy on the continent.