The Director-General of the Moroccan Agency for International Cooperation (MACI), Mohammed Methqal, has revealed the country is making efforts to expand infrastructure to accelerate development.

He says since the assumption of office by the current leader of the country, King Mohammed VI, road networks in the nation have been improved and increased.

This, according to him, is an improvement of the previous 40km annual construction target which delayed the North African country from meeting her road infrastructure demands.

Speaking during an interaction with some Ghanaian journalists on Thursday, he noted that “infrastructure development has become the springboard in shaping the development of Morocco.”

“Currently, Morocco constructs 160km Highways annually to speed up the growing demand and process for infrastructure development in the country.”

Mr Methqal explained that the ultimate goal of this initiative is to strategically promote and execute development programmes and projects that would reflect in the welfare of the people of Morocco.

In doing so, many highways and vital interchanges, flyovers and other important components of the road network in the country have been designed to create access to movement of goods and services within and outside major cities and towns in the country.

A touch of rail system connecting the cities and hard-to-reach communities across the country has also improved productivity in the country.

“Aside the beautiful green environment, deliberately nurtured in all major cities in Morocco, road infrastructure has been phenomenally positioned by the Kingdom to provide direction in transport sector in the country,” Mr Methqal added.

Some eight Ghanaian journalists selected by the Journalists for Tourism Advocacy (JTA) are in the country to explore the prospects of tourism reporting.

Led by the Executive Director of JTA, Zambaga Rufai Saminu, they are expected to, through their news articles and reportage, promote tourism development in Morocco and Ghana.

This would be done through the promotion of exciting inbound and outbound tourism destinations and facilities in both countries.

However, tourism development in these countries cannot be achieved without the requisite infrastructure development required to position destinations and all tourism facilities.