Media Outlets in Dakar Highlight Senegalese Consulate Opening in Dakhla

Several Senegalese newspapers and media outlets highlighted Tuesday the opening of a Consulate General in Dakhla, the 10th diplomatic representation inaugurated in this city, welcoming the excellent thousand-year-old relations between Senegal and Morocco.
Senegal opens a Consulate General in Dakhla, the daily Le Soleil writes, noting that Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese abroad Aïssata Tall Sall inaugurated Monday, together with Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Moroccans Abroad Nasser Bourita the Consulate in Dakhla, “a province in the south of the Sherifian Kingdom”. At the end of this inauguration ceremony, the two ministers signed two cooperation agreements and a memorandum of understanding intended to promote Moroccan-Senegalese partnership in the fields of decentralization, information and communications technology (ICT) and civil aviation, the daily adds. Senegal joins ten countries that opened consulates in Dakhla, the daily WalfQuotidien writes, adding that by the opening of this consular representation, President “Macky Sall reaffirms the position of Dakar on the Moroccaness of the Sahara. Senegal has opened a consulate general in Dakhla, the 10th diplomatic representation inaugurated in this city for just over a year, news website SENEGO reports, noting that during the inauguration ceremony, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad Nasser Bourita and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese abroad Aïssata Tall Sall have addressed “various aspects of the rooted cooperation between Morocco and Senegal.” The daily Lequotidien.sn writes Senegal joins the list of countries friends and allies of Morocco that have opened consulates in Dakhla, the second-largest city in Moroccan Sahara. The news agency APA highlights the opening of the Consulate General of Senegal in Dakhla, noting the excellent level of the long-standing ties between Morocco and Senegal. This is the 10th diplomatic representation inaugurated in Dakhla after countries including Djibouti, Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Equatorial Guinea, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo, APA recalls.