Seventeen African Countries Confirm Participation in Casablanca's Africa-USA Ministerial Conference on Energy

Seventeen African countries have so far confirmed their participation in the third Africa-USA ministerial conference on energy, to be held in Casablanca next June 3-4 under the theme "energy partnerships for a sustainable development: supply security and regional integration."

Moroccan minister of industry, commerce, energy and mining, Mustapha Mansouri, told an information meeting on the conference with African ambassadors to Morocco, said the conference will probe the promotion of energy programs in Africa and industrial partnerships in the field of energy technologies, and seek to foster regional expertise for a sustainable economic and social development.

Mansouri also hopes that a large number of African countries will take part in the conference which also features business and partnership meetings by African and American enterprises.

African ministers in charge of energy, and some 300 experts of the sector, including representatives of governments, financial bodies, Ngos and private enterprises will take part in the conference.