In Marrakech, Ryad Mezzour embodies the royal vision of a sovereign and integrated Africa

Marrakech hosted, from June 1 to 3, 2025, the work of the Ibrahim Forum, organised as part of the Ibrahim Governance Weekend, under the evocative theme: "Financing the Africa we want". A high-level meeting, placed under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, which brought together leading figures from the political, economic, and institutional worlds. Among them, the Minister of Industry and Trade, Ryad Mezzour, particularly distinguished himself with an intervention with a strong strategic scope, in line with the royal vision for a sovereign, productive, and integrated African development.
Representing Morocco in this forum for reflection on the future of the continent, Ryad Mezzour insisted on the urgency for Africa to break with models of dependency and to build its own trajectory, based on the intelligent exploitation of its natural and human resources. He defended an a…