France pledges $168-million investment in Western Sahara

After the evolution of the French position on Western Sahara last summer, a clear support for the plan of autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty proposed by Rabat, Paris multiplied the political signals towards the Moroccan authorities. After visits by the French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati, the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher or the French ambassador to Morocco in the regions of Western Sahara administered by Morocco, the French Develo…

France pledges $168-million investment in Western Sahara

The state-run French Development Agency (AFD) will invest $168 million in the largely Moroccan-controlled but disputed territory of Western Sahara, the agency's chief said Saturday. "The AFD group will now invest in the southern regions and provide investments and financing," AFD chief executive Remy Rioux said in a statement carried by official Moroccan news agency MAP during a visit to the territory. Western Sahara, a mineral-rich former Spani…

Several French companies, including Engie and MGH Energy, have signed agreements for the production of green energy and e-fuels from this disputed territory.

French Development Agency CEO on field mission in Moroccan Sahara

The CEO of the French Development Agency (AFD), Rémy Rioux, who is currently on a working visit to Morocco, has announced plans to carry out a field mission in the Kingdom’s Southern Provinces. The announcement came during a press briefing on Friday in Rabat, following Rioux’s meeting with Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation […] The post French Development Agency CEO on field mission in Moroccan Sahara appeared first on Gh…

France plans to invest 150 million euros in Western Sahara via the French Development Agency. An announcement made on Saturday in Laâyoune by Rémy Rioux, on the basis of a strategic rapprochement between Paris and Rabat.

French Agency plans €150 million-investments in Morocco’s southern provinces – The North Africa Post

The French Development Agency (AFD) group is planning significant investments worth around €150 million in Morocco’s southern provinces, announced the Agency’s CEO, Rémy Rioux. Rioux, who is on a working visit to Morocco at the head of a high-level delegation, said at a press briefing, in Laayoune on Saturday, that “the AFD Group will now […]