“We are an African country,” says Said Ibrahimi, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Casablanca Finance City Authority. “We have ties with the Middle East but we are more African than Middle Eastern.”
“Apart from oil what do we buy from the Middle East? Not much,” says another senior business figure from Morocco. “We have ties of language and religion with the Middle East and we welcome Middle East investors to Morocco. However, from an economic point of view we are more integrated with Africa. Moroccan companies are very much involved in Africa, but they are not involved in the Middle East.”
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"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the peace when we were getting laid out? Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? Where is the peace then? They don't want to call for peace then.
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