Over 35,000 guests from greater than 140 international locations internationally are anticipated to converge in Algiers, Algeria from 4 – 10 September 2025 to attend the Intra-African Commerce Honest 2025 (IATF2025), Africa’s premier commerce and funding occasion.
Through the week-long truthful, greater than 2,000 exhibitors, together with companies from the African continent and globally, might be showcasing their items and companies to the guests and consumers whereas exploring alternatives and exchanging info. That is projected to translate into over US$44 billion in commerce and funding offers.
Hosted by the Authorities of the Folks’s Democratic Republic of Algeria below the theme ‘Gateway to New Alternatives’, the week-long occasion gives a platform for enhancing commerce and funding. It goals to faucet into alternatives from the only market of the African Continental Free Commerce Space (AfCFTA) of over 1.4 billion folks and a GDP of over US$3.5 trillion. The truthful is held biennially by the African Export-Import Financial institution (Afreximbank), in collaboration with the African Union and the AfCFTA Secretariat.
The Chairman of the Advisory Council of IATF and former President of Nigeria, H.E. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo mentioned: “The IATF has distinguished itself as an instrument for selling intra-African commerce and funding by enabling companies to work together and entry commerce and market info alternatives. Over $100 billion in commerce and funding offers have been closed cumulatively with over 70,000 guests and greater than 4,500 exhibitors taking part within the final three editions of IATF. We welcome African companies to faucet into the alternatives to market, develop gross sales, increase to new markets and to change concepts with friends. We thank our host, Algeria, which is among the continent’s extra superior economies”.
Heads of State and Governments, Ministers of Commerce, Finance, Tradition and different ministries in addition to excessive profile enterprise, small&medium enterprises and business leaders are anticipated to attend IATF2025.
Chief Obasanjo added: “IATF is the most important, holistic commerce truthful championing the continent’s development and growth. It serves as a collaborative platform for driving shared aspirations for prosperity and stability, as envisioned by AfCFTA. It’s a sturdy spine for significant transformation of Africa and enhancing resilience by making a gateway to new alternatives for economies and companies by means of intra-African commerce and funding.
Key actions lined up for IATF2025 embody a commerce exhibition by international locations and companies; the Artistic Africa Nexus (CANEX) programme with a devoted exhibition and summit overlaying style, music, movie, arts and craft, sports activities, literature, gastronomy and culinary arts; a four-day Commerce and Funding Discussion board that includes main African and worldwide audio system; and the Africa Automotive Present for auto producers, assemblers, authentic gear producers and part suppliers.
There might be Particular Days devoted for international locations in addition to private and non-private entities to showcase commerce and funding alternatives, and tourism and cultural sights, in addition to IATF Diaspora Day which highlights industrial and cultural ties between Africa and its diaspora, that includes a Diaspora Summit, market and exhibition, cultural and gastronomic showcase.
Additionally deliberate is a business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-government (B2G) platform for matchmaking and enterprise exchanges; the AU Youth Begin-Up programme showcasing revolutionary concepts and prototypes; the Africa Analysis and Innovation Platform @ IATF for college college students, academia and nationwide researchers to exhibit improvements; and the African Sub-Sovereign Governments Community to advertise commerce, funding, instructional and cultural exchanges on the native stage. The IATF Digital platform is already reside, connecting exhibitors and guests all year long.
To take part in IATF2025 please go to www.IntrAfricanTradeFair.com.
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In regards to the Intra-African Commerce Honest:
Organised by the African Export-Import Financial institution (Afreximbank), in collaboration with the African Union Fee (AUC) and the African Continental Free Commerce Space (AfCFTA) Secretariat, the Intra-African Commerce Honest (IATF) is meant to supply a novel platform for facilitating commerce and funding info change in help of elevated intra-African commerce and funding, particularly within the context of implementing the African Continental Free Commerce Settlement (AfCFTA). IATF brings collectively continental and international gamers to showcase and exhibit their items and companies and to discover enterprise and funding alternatives within the continent. It additionally offers a platform to share commerce, funding and market info with stakeholders and permits individuals to debate and determine options to the challenges confronting intra-African commerce and funding. Along with African individuals, the Commerce Honest can be open to companies and traders from non-African international locations excited by doing enterprise in Africa and in supporting the continent’s transformation by means of industrialisation and export growth.