Luanda – The minister for Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad, Aissata Tall Sall, said today in Luanda that her country would boost business relations with Angola and establish cooperation in the areas of trade and industry.
Tall Sall, who has been in Luanda since Thursday, said at the end of a visit to the Luanda/Bengo Special Economic Zone (ZEE-LB), that on her return to Senegal she would take a message of cooperation from Angola in the areas of industry and trade.
The official said, on the other hand, that inter-trade relations between African countries were fragile, a factor that in her opinion prevented the industrialisation and development of the African continent.
She said it was curious that only 13 percent of African countries had imports between them, even though Africa was rich in raw materials, had great potential and a vast consumer market. “We need to change this sad picture,” the Senegalese diplomat said.
Speaking to journalists at the end of the visit, she said that the creation of industrial hubs, free trade zones and the African Continental Free Trade Area would boost the continent’s development.
For the visiting official, the main aim of the African countries should be development, so that in the coming years Africa will be able to sustain itself.
Source: Angola Press News Agency