2023-09-07 18:47:14
“Historic”, “unique”, “secular”… In Libreville as in Rabat, the description of the links which unite the two countries often turns into a contest of superlatives. It is that, under Hassan II as under Mohammed VI, friendship with the Bongos has never been altered by the slightest crisis since 1960, bringing in its wake a significant development of economic relations over the past two decades. So much so that many do not hesitate to speak of “Gabonese El Dorado” for Moroccan companies.
Will the fall of Ali Bongo Ondimba put an end to this idyll between the two “brotherly countries”? It is the a question that many Moroccan bosses asked themselves after the announcement of the coup on the night of August 29 to 30. “We have a small period of uncertainty but the concern quickly dissipated because our group has good relations with the Gabonese authorities, beyond relations with the Bongo family”, confides to Young Africa the manager of a large Moroccan company presents au Gabon.
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