In this sense, the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline project launched in 2016 by King Mohammed VI and the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Bouhari, is definitely in line with this orientation which will develop the common interests of several West African countries. .

The Memorandum of Understanding, signed recently in Rabat, with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and, in Nouakchott with Mauritania and Senegal, marks an essential milestone in the process of carrying out the project. , supported King Mohammed VI, stressing that this memorandum reflects the commitment of the countries concerned to "  contribute to the realization of this strategic project and it illustrates their political will to ensure its success".

For the Kingdom, the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline represents  "more than a bilateral project between two brotherly countries",  underlined the Sovereign, expressing the wish that it be a strategic project beneficial to the entire African region. west, more than 440 million inhabitants.

With a budget of more than 77 billion dirhams, this integrated development program is designed to initiate real economic and social dynamics in the region. Its vocation is to stimulate, in these territories, the creation of jobs, to ensure a climate conducive to investment, to provide them with the infrastructure and equipment they need, indicated the Moroccan sovereign.

A project, indicated the King, "  intended for present and future generations  " and which works in favor of peace, the economic integration of the African continent and its common development because in addition to Morocco and Mauritania, this gas pipeline offers fifteen ECOWAS countries,  "opportunities and guarantees in terms of energy security and socio-economic and industrial development" , and will make it possible to link Africa to Europe.

"  We therefore welcome the support of regional and international financial institutions which have expressed the wish to provide effective support for its implementation",  declared King Mohammed VI, expressing his receptivity to any form of fruitful partnership aimed at carry out this large-scale African project.

Finally, we recall that the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, received, on Sunday November 6 in London, the Moroccan Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Hakim Hajoui, bearing a personal message from King Mohammed VI .