The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) signed a partnership agreement with the National Company of Transports and Logistics, SNTL, in Morocco, under the umbrella of the Aid for Trade Initiative for Arab States (AfTIAS), to launch a study for the development of logistical platforms for trade and investment facilitation between Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa

The group of WTO Friends of Investment Facilitation for Development (FIFD) pledged support for the success of the High-Level Investment Forum taking place in Abuja on the 3 - 4 of November 

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a private sector multi-currency line of credit of US$100mn and 1.3bn South African Rand to Industrial Development Corporation Plc (IDC) of South Africa where the operation will support industrialisation projects in both South Africa and other Regional Member Countries (RMCs)

Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, has appointed Vanessa Moungar, director for gender, women and civil society of the African Development Bank (AfDB), to his presidential council for Africa

Allianz Group announced today a binding agreement to acquire 98 per cent of Nigerian insurer Ensure Insurance Plc. from its core shareholder Greenoaks Global Holdings Ltd