King Mohammed leaves Yaounde

Morocco's King Mohammed VI left this Friday Yaounde where he took part in the 21 st Africa-France summit held on Jan.18-19. In his speech to the summit, the king hoped that globalization would not edge out Africa and entail further splits and exclusions and that the international community would not indefinitely accept an asymmetrical, one-way globalization.

The king met on Thursday Sudanese president, Omar Al Bachir and Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade. On the same day he received at his residence in Yaounde French president Jacques Chirac, and hosted a luncheon in his honor. He also attended on Thursday night a dinner banquet hosted by Cameroon's president Paul Biya for the heads of state participating in the summit that focused on "Africa in the face of globalization."

This Friday, the king met Mamadou Tanja, president of Niger and Mauritanian prime minister, Sheikh El Afia Mohamed Ould Khouna.

The summit, held every two years alternately in France and Africa, is attended by heads of state and representatives from 52 countries. Since its inception in 1973, the summit was attended this year by a record number of heads of state.