Dr Nimrod Zalk, industrial development advisor in the office of the director-general of the Department of Trade and Industry, has delivered the keynote address at a Workshop on ‘Digital Transformation in Africa: Leveraging the Promise and Addressing New Challenges’
Economy
League of Arab States and ITFC announce cooperation towards intra-Arab trade
The League of Arab States (Economic Affairs Sector) and the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank Group, have signed a MoU towards accelerating cooperation in the development of intra-Arab trade
AfDB and MCB to launch African domestic bond fund
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and MCB Capital Markets has announced to launch of the African domestic bond fund (ADBF), the first multijurisdictional sovereign fixed income exchange-traded fund on the continent
Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia to hold trilateral talks on economic integration
The President of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo is leading efforts to consolidate gains made at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation by facilitating the prospect of a tripartite agreement on economic Integration between the countries of the Horn
ECA leads UN efforts for a stable and prosperous Sahel region
The UN is revamping its action plan to address the root causes of the complex crisis in Africa’s Sahel region, in particular outlining a development vision for the region through a prospective socio-economic study by its agencies led by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)