Prospects of cooperation and exchange as part of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) took centre stage as Minister of Economy and Planning Feryel Ouerghi met with Assistant Secretary General of COMESA Mohamed Kadah.
The meeting, attended by Director General of RIA- the Regional Investment Agency- and COMESA advisers, takes place on the sidelines of the COMESA Investment Forum (CIF 2024) which is set to take place ON June 27 in Tunis.
Emphasis was laid on the need to spotlight the role of the regional grouping in stepping up integration and development in member countries.
The Assistant SG said this forum will help economic operators take stock of oppotunities of investment, exchange and cooperation in each member state
Investment flows to Africa are still low in spite of the huge potential of the continent, he added, thus the need for increased effort to promote this potential through regional investment mapping. The COMESA is working on this, Kadah said.
Tunisia is ready to put in place all the necessary facilities to foster economic cooperation under COMESA, the minister said. Joigning this regional groupig demonstrates Tunisia’s commitment to its African dimension.
The forum is a business-to-business (B2B) and government-to-business (B2G) gathering, bringing together leading policymakers with captains of industry, financiers, major industrialists, and investors from across the COMESA region, focusing on strategic sectors, namely agribusiness, pharmaceutical, renewable energy, IT, among others.
