Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Timothy Musa Kabba, has signed two landmark agreements with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – a Cooperation Agreement to deepen economic relations in areas like agriculture, infrastructure, education, defense, mining, marine resources and energy.

The minister also signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Political Consultation to enable both countries to consult and collaborate as Organisation of Islamic Cooperation members as well as Sierra Leone’s role in global peace and security as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.

On the eve of the Summit, Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Dr. Ibrahim Jalloh, who studied in the Kingdom in the 1980s, told the Saudi Ministry of Media that he was keen to see greater cooperation between the two countries in the form of university exchange programmes.