The Spanish ambassador in Guinea Bissau meets up with entrepreneurs and authorities at Casa África

The Spanish ambassador in Guinea Bissau, Alfonso López Perona, today met up at Casa África's headquarters, in Las Palmas of Gran Canaria, with a group of entrepreneurs from the Canary Islands with a presence or interest in this West African country and representatives of civil and military society of the Islands. Present at this meeting were for example, the government delegate in the Canary Islands, María del Carmen Hernández  Bento; the mayor of  Las Palmas of Gran Canaria, Juan José Cardona; the Naval Command Admiral of the Canary Islands,  Salvador Delgado Moreno, or the chief of the Civil Guard's headquarters, Colonel Francisco Javier Sualdea Martín. 

At the meeting with the ambassador, the ambassador told the participants about Guinea Bissau’s current situation, a country that is going through a transition after the coup d'etat undertaken last April but that must be closely monitored, because once political stability is attained, something that is feasible in the short to medium term, it will present a great number of investment opportunities. There are several companies from the Canary Islands or Spain that have interests in Guinea Bissau, and the interest for this country, whose economy until now has depended on the agricultural sector (with the cultivation of cashew nuts as its star product), has not stopped growing.

The Spanish ambassador recommended to the participants who attended that they should begin familiarising themselves with this country, a neighbour of Senegal and Guinea Conakry, and with an enormous potential in the mineral sector (phosphate and bauxite), or in infrastructures, something that will come about when the country can once again begin receiving financing from multi-lateral organisations.