Yaounde : Moroccan King’s Anniversary Celebrated

The Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to Cameroon, Mostafa Bouh used celebrations marking King Mohammed VI’s accession to the throne to laud the growing cooperation ties between Morocco and Cameroon. The Minister Delegate at the Ministry of External Relations in charge of Relations with the Islamic World, Adoum Gargoum represented Cameroon government in the event at the Yaounde Hilton Hotel which took place in the presence of many cabinet ministers, members of the diplomatic corps and other national and foreign dignitaries. 
The Ambassador lauded the rich and tense relations that link his country to Cameroon in the political, economic and cultural domains. He stated that cooperation is coordinated at a higher level through tense and regular political dialogue manifested through meetings between government officials, parliamentarians and concrete actions in decentralised cooperation between local governments of the two countries. He singled out economic cooperation, stating that Moroccan companies both public and private have witnessed an increased presence in Cameroon in the banking, cement production and air transport sectors. In 2018, he said, Cameroon’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development signed two partnership agreements with a Moroccan institution to boost projects in the agricultural sector. Morocco, he added, has been granting scholarships to Cameroonian students and senior officials. The students study in Moroccan universities and professional institutions in domains such as technical education and applied technology, architecture, medicine and pharmacy, and military training. The Ambassador announc...