Cairo, 22 October 2018: – Africa’s leading private sector institutions and corporates have established a Pan-African Private Sector Trade and Investment Committee (PAFTRAC) to serve as an advocacy platform to support the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and enhance African private sector participation in trade and investment policy formulation, including trade

Cairo, 22 October 2018: – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the FCI+IFG Union and the University of Malta today in Cairo announced the opening of registrations for the 2019 cohort of the Certificate of Finance in International Trade (COFIT). Stephen Kauma, Afreximbank’s Director & Global Head of the Human Resources Department, said that COFIT 2019,

Bali, Indonesia, 16 Oct. 2018: A delegation of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) led by the President, Prof. Benedict Oramah, on Wednesday in Bali, Indonesia, held talks with a Zimbabwean Government team led by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Prof. Mthuli Ncube, and the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Dr. John

Bali, Indonesia, 13 Oct. 2018: – Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and development economist Jeffrey Sacks today in Bali, Indonesia, called for the establishment of an Africa fund for education as they delivered the second Babacar Ndiaye Lecture in Bali, Indonesia. The two personalities, who were the guest speakers at the international lecture series introduced

Cairo, 11 Oct. 2018: – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has taken its recently-introduced Afreximbank Trade Facilitation Programme (AFTRAF) to Guinean banks, telling representatives of the Guinean banking sector that the programme will lead to improved support from Afreximbank. Speaking during an interactive session in Conakry, the Afreximbank delegation said that AFTRAF would allow the

Bali, Indonesia, 10 Oct. 2018: – The economies of the South must work together in order to deal with the uncertainties resulting from the current global trade environment, Prof. Benedict Oramah, President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), said yesterday in Bali, Indonesia. Speaking during a Panel discussion on “The Growing Importance of South-South Cooperation

Cairo, 03 Oct. 2018: – African banks can improve their business performance by keying into the Afreximbank Trade Facilitation Programme (AFTRAF) which was recently introduced by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), representatives of the Senegalese banking sector heard yesterday in Dakar. Speaking during a roadshow to introduce AFTRAF, Fatma Bao, Manager in the Afreximbank Guarantees

Cairo, 20 Sept. 2018: – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and the National Bank for Foreign Economic Activity (NBU) of Uzbekistan have entered into a cooperation agreement aimed at strengthening economic relations between African countries and Uzbekistan. The agreement, which was signed on 5 September on the side-lines of the Egyptian-Uzbek Business in Tashkent, will

  Cairo, 19 Sept. 2018: – Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and leading development economist Prof. Jeffrey Sachs will headline the second Babacar Ndiaye Lecture, to be held in Bali, Indonesia, on 13 October 2018, the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced. They will speak on the theme “Global Power Disequilibrium, Trade Wars and Implications

Cairo, 18 Sept. 2018: – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has closed a Korea-focused $150 million club facility which has Shinhan Bank as coordinator and lender. Other banks participating as lenders in the facility, which has a three-year tenor, are KEB Hana Bank, Woori Bank and NongHyup Bank. Speaking at the signing ceremony held in

Abidjan, le 14 septembre 2018 : – La Côte d’Ivoire peut accroître considérablement les avantages découlant du commerce avec d’autres pays africains et transformer la région de l’Afrique de l’Ouest en augmentant son approvisionnement en matières premières et industrielles en Afrique pour alimenter son secteur manufacturier léger en plein essor, comme recommandé par les experts

Abidjan, 14 September 2018: – Cote d’Ivoire can greatly increase the benefits accruing to it from trade with other African countries and transform the West Africa region by increasing its sourcing of raw and industrial materials from Africa to feed into its burgeoning light manufacturing sector, a high-level panel discussion in Abidjan has recommended. The