The Morocco and Senegal have agreed to work together to exchange complaints and concerns from citizens in both countries, who feel aggrieved by unfair or discriminatory decisions.
The cooperation agreement was signed on Tuesday in Rabat between the institution of the Mediator of the Kingdom of Morocco and its counterpart in Senegal, with the aim of strengthening cooperation and exchanging experiences and best practices in the field of institutional mediation.
Under the terms of this agreement, signed by the Moroccan Ombudsman, Mohamed Benalilou, and his Senegalese counterpart, Demba Kandji, the two parties undertake to cooperate, particularly in terms of exchanging complaints and grievances from citizens of both countries who feel they have been the victims of decisions or actions contrary to the principles of justice and equality before the law.
Under the terms of the document, the two parties will also develop training and capacity-building programmes for the executives of the two institutions and carry out activities linked to the development of administrative governance, as well as preparing and implementing programmes and projects of common interest in their respective areas of competence.
In a statement on this occasion, the Mediator of the Kingdom stressed that the signing of this agreement is part of the implementation of the royal vision for South-South cooperation and the Kingdom’s openness to its African neighbours, noting that this is an opportunity to share the experience that Morocco has accumulated in the field of mediation (ombudsman) with African countries.
For his part, the Senegalese Ombudsman expressed his country’s desire to benefit from the Kingdom’s extensive experience in this field, adding that the agreement would strengthen relations between the two institutions through the exchange of expertise and training in the field of mediation.
The Mediator of the Republic of Senegal is on a working visit to the Kingdom’s Ombudsman institution, which will end next Thursday.
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