Spain targets Africa in boost of diplomatic, business ties: #Spain launched Monday a diplomatic push into #Africa, marking out the #continent as a political priority with an ambitious plan to build closer economic and institutional ties.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said he wanted to “turn this decade … into the decade of Spain in Africa.”
Sánchez unveiled his “Africa Focus 2023” plan at an event in #Madrid attended by Ghana’s president, Nana Akufo-Addo, the foreign ministers of #Ghana and #Senegal, #Kenya ’s head of #trade, and the president of the #AfricanDevelopmentBank, #AkinwumiAdesina.
Spain had few colonial possessions in Africa compared with some other #European countries, but Sánchez noted that the #continent lies just a couple of dozen kilometers away from the southern Spanish coast. He described Spain as “Europe’s southern gateway” for Africa. https://lnkd.in/eHTi6bJ
