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Moroccan Press Agency reported that King Mohammed VI, accompanied by Guinean president, Pr. Alpha Condé, inaugurated, on Wednesday in the Matoto commune, 20 km from Conakry, the flour-mill “Moulins de l’Afrique” (Africa’s mills).
Fruit of a joint venture between the Lahlal Mills (Morocco) and Sonoco company Ltd (Guinea), this new industrial unit was carried out for over 30 million euros.
Built on a surface area of 3.5 ha in the Sonfonia industrial area (Matoto commune), the next generation flour-mill, with a capacity of 900 tons per day, benefited from the trust of institutional financial partners and a local banking pool.
The factory’s monthly production capacity is nearly 19,000 tons of flour and 6,250 tons of bran to meet the needs of the Guinean market.
In line with south-south cooperation, made a top priority by HM the King in Morocco’s foreign policy, as well as with the development of win-win partnerships, this new flour-mill will create around 500 direct jobs.
The plant is supervised by 45 engineers and technicians (Moroccan, Guinean, Swiss, Polish and French) which makes it a very important engine for technology transfer.
The construction of this industrial unit is in harmony with the five-year program by the Guinean government which puts food self-sufficiency at the heart of its priorities.
Later King Mohammed VI and Guinean President Alpha Condé chaired at the Mohammed V palace in Conakry, the signing ceremony of a cooperation agreement between Moroccan employers’ body (CGEM) and its Guinean counterpart “Alliance patronale”.
The agreement, which is meant to share expertize and information between the two bodies in order to boost investment in the two countries, was signed by president of CGEM Meriem Bensalah Chaqroun and head of Guinean “Alliance patronale” Ismail Keita.
This agreement is an addition to the Memorandum of Agreement in the field of hydroelectric production, inked on Wednesday under the chairmanship of the two heads of state, and to the 21 cooperation agreements which were signed in relation mainly with the areas of agriculture, industry, trade and social housing.
The sovereign, accompanied by the Guinean head of state, toured the facility which includes mainly storing silos for imported wheat, two mills, and a flour packaging unit.
The two heads of states presided over the signing ceremony of an important Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between Morocco and the Republic of Guinea in the field of hydroelectric production.
Under this agreement, Morocco will support Guinea in designing, carrying out and building several dams for the production of electricity and drinking water, as well as agricultural upgrading.
The project consists mainly of implementing a program of technical assistance, training, capacity building and funding for the construction of hydroelectric dams in Guinea.
These dams will develop a large-scale collection and irrigation capacity. This infrastructure will also enable supplying electricity and drinking water for Guinean population.
The decades-long Moroccan experience in the field of designing, building and managing hydroelectric dams will be used to ameliorate infrastructure capacities, while taking account of needs and specificities of Guinea.
The mapping and studies related to this huge sustainable development project will be carried out before the end of the year 2014.
The agreement was signed by Moroccan ministers of agriculture and energy, Aziz Akhannouch and Abdelkader Aâmara respectively, and by Guinean counterparts, Jacqueline Marthe Sultan and Idrissa Thiam.
Source Temsamani said
