Seven years after the royal speech delivered on the occasion of the 2014 Moroccan-Ivorian Economic Forum in Abidjan, when King Mohammed VI stressed that “Africa must trust Africa”, the African Union officially launched the first phase of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), in implementation of one of the strategic objectives of the African Union’s Agenda 2064. This represents a concrete sign of the crystallisation of this trust that Morocco is carefully implementing in its relations with the continent.
Through its dynamics, Morocco aims to achieve three main objectives: first, to take advantage of the economic opportunities offered by the new international environment to give new impetus to the socio-economic development of African countries in the service of their peoples. Second, to guarantee the sovereignty of African states and reduce the…
