Morocco is on a mission to embrace its African image by working to shed the image of North African countries as Arab nations and to be known as African countries, and it is doing so by increasing its investment in the south. “It is high time we changed the Arab image of North African countries,” says Lilia Hachem, the Director of the Economic Commission for Africa, North Africa Region Office. She says Morocco is working to change that notion by pursuing African integration through investments in sub-Saharan Africa. The investments, she said have been mostly in West Africa, and the country is now targeting investments in North Africa, as part of the country’s efforts to foster integration and trade in Africa. She said by increasing value addition and manufacturing, African countries will create more jobs and increase revenue to finance SDGs and social services.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 19, 2019 21:04 UTC