Democratic Republic of Congo Opens Consulate General in Dakhla

PERSISMA, Dakhla, Morocco – The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Saturday, 19 December 2020, opened a Consulate General in Dakhla, the 9th diplomatic representation inaugurated in this city in less than a year.

The inauguration ceremony was presided over by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans abroad, Nasser Bourita and his counterpart of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Marie Tumba Nzeza.

Since the beginning of the year, the city of Dakhla has experienced a strong diplomatic momentum with the inauguration of the consulates of the Gambia, Guinea, Djibouti, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau and Equatorial Guinea, in addition to Haiti, the first non-Arab and non-African country to open a Consulate in the Moroccan Sahara.