The future of Africa depends on the emergence of new elites able to meet the challenges of development, said the participants at the 6th International Meeting of the Open University of Dakhla, whose work ended on Friday.
African countries today are called upon to strengthen and qualify their human capital to ensure a greater role in the realization of a new generation of reforms and to help build a new future for Africa, indicated the participants. In the same vein, the president of the Association for Studies and Research for Development and president of the University of Dakhla, Driss Guerraoui, emphasized in a statement to the MAP, that Africa must strengthen and enhance human, institutional and social capital to meet future challenges. Africa of tomorrow needs a new African dream based on a new African hope, which requires the emergence of new political, scientific, economic, administrative and cultural elites to match this ambition, he added.