It has extremely strong credentials in the football industry as the pan-African Public Relations agency of FIFA, and the Official Partner of French football club Olympique de Marseille’s African programme, OM Africa.

Source: https://www.africanews.it/english/world-football-summit-appoints-apo-group-as-official-public-relations-agency-in-africa/

Lionel Guidi’s government was located in one of Marseille’s poorest neighborhoods between 2006 and 2012.

Source: https://www.thecherawchronicle.com/french-dentists-who-abused-patients-also-receive-effective-prison-sentences-on-appeal-mutilation-of-four-hundred-people-outside/

The encounter will bring together leaders of Marseille’s various faith groups – Muslims, Jews, Armenian and Orthodox Christians, and Roman Catholics -- and will feature testimony of migrants, rescue groups and the pope.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/marseille-ap-pope-francis-france-mediterranean-b2414824.html