Burkina Faso reaffirmed its full support for the initiative launched by King Mohammed VI aiming to help landlocked Sahel states access the Atlantic Ocean and global trade. Burkina Faso’s foreign minister Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré said following talks in Rabat with his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Boourita. Traore described the initiative as embodying south-south cooperation in line with a win-win approach that would help promote African prosperity. A Burkinabe delegation is visiting Morocco “to discuss the details of this project. The Atlantic initiative is designed to boost social and economic developments in the region, said Bourita, adding that the Burkinabe delegation points to the beginning of the implementation of this large-scale regional integration project.
