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Laayoune: Mezzour inaugurates Chamber of Commerce headquarters

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Ryad Mezzour inaugurated the new headquarters of the Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services in the Moroccan Sahara on 6 November 2026. Reports place the opening during the Green March’s 51st anniversary.

Aerial view of central Laayoune.
Laayoune, Moroccan Sahara, July 2023. Archive; not the inaugurated headquarters. Zakaria Taberkant / Commune of Laayoune, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ ; resized. — Zakaria Taberkant / Commune of Laayoune, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ ; 30 juillet 2023, redimensionnement uniquement.

The chamber represents and supports the region’s traders, industrial firms and service businesses. Its president, Khalil Ould Errachid, presents the building as a means of improving support for their projects.

The minister met chamber representatives to discuss business difficulties and prospects. Sahara24 describes the rehabilitation of a building previously used by the regional investment centre. The sources provide no quantified assessment of the new services or the investment they might generate.

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