Moroccan Minister of Industry and Investment Moulay Hafeez Alami said that the African governments should work to build a new successful system to train a new generation of young people who are able to meet the demands of the market in the continent during the current critical period. He underlined the importance of the role performed by the Private Sector to achieve economic development and to create new job opportunities.

He added, in an interview with “Arabs Today”, that the forum held in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh to discuss the ways to activate the value of good governance aims to discuss the challenges facing Africa in the 21st century and the ways to overcome them to ensure better future to the continent. He added that the forum is considered a celebration organized by Mohamed Ibrahim Institution on annual basis in different African cities to discuss the issues of common interest.

He added, “To discuss the future, we should talk about the infrastructure in the continent. The Africans themselves should work together to decide the destiny of their continent during the coming critical period of time in the light of the urgent need to achieve economic development as soon as possible.”

He stressed that the continent will achieve notable progress during the near future if its leaders managed to provide support for the human efficiencies and to the private sector. He stressed that the continent has natural and humanitarian qualification to achieve economic and social development in all over the countries of the continent.

He stressed that Africa has good abilities to develop the agricultural field, while it faces major challenges related to the lack of capabilities and infrastructure, stressing the need for using the agricultural abilities in Africa during the coming period to resolve the current food crisis facing the world as whole.

He added that there is a need for developing the educational curricula during the coming period to qualify the new generations for dealing with the new developments witnessed in the international markets upon the principles imposed by globalization.