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Rabat – Morocco has renewed its commitment to contributing to Africa’s food security through its fertilizer donation program, with Ghana being the latest beneficiary of the North African country’s pan-African vision of contributing to reducing food poverty across the continent.
Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa, announced the news on his X account last week, noting that the significant agreements the two countries signed include food security cooperation.
The cooperation agreement will begin with a free donation of 2,000 tonnes of fertilizers to Ghanaian farmers, as well as technical support for the construction of a modern fertilizer manufacturing plant in Ghana, the minister detailed.
Morocco has been expressing its commitment to contributing to the continent’s food security efforts through different programs, including fertilizer donations.
OCP, Morocco’s giant fertilizer group, has been donating fertilizers or offering discounts on prices on fertilizers to many countries on the continent.
In July, OCP donated 15,000 tonnes of diammonium phosphate fertilizers to Rwanda in a bid to help the East African country increase its agricultural production.
The same month saw Morocco donating 3,924 bags of fertilizers to Saint Lucia to assist local farmers and reduce production costs.
In December 2022, Morocco also donated 5,000 tonnes of fertilizers to smallholder farmers in Mauritania.
In October of the same year, Morocco donated 25,0000 tonnes of fertilizer to smallholder farmers in Senegal.
The country’s recent fertilizer donation to Ghana comes as the two African nations are working to boost their cooperation and bilateral ties further at all levels.
Okudzeto Ablakwa stressed the importance of the other agreements he signed during his visit to Morocco, including scholarships for Ghanaian students, training of young Ghanaian students to become pilots at Morocco’s prestigious pilot training academy, as well as educational exchange programs in many areas of shared strategic priority. During his visit to Morocco, the Ghanaian minister expressed his country’s support for Morocco’s Autonomy Plan as the most serious and credible political pathway to end the dispute over Western Sahara.
The news came as a new setback to Algeria’s regime activism, which has unsuccessfully continued to challenge Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces in Western Sahara.
Kenya made the same announcement last month, joining a relentlessly growing list of countries that now regard the Moroccan Autonomy Initiative as the only feasible political horizon for peace, stability, and prosperity in the Sahara.
