Afreximbank’s New Innovation Hub Targets $70 Billion Annual Gains for Africa

I Spent 7 Days in Algeria for Africa’s Biggest Trade & Creative Showcase At #IATF2025

Algeirs Algeria! Algiers, you have my heart Layomi Cole I am back from my seven-day adventure in Algiers, Algeria for the #IATF2025 with the focus on the Creative Africa Nexus #CANEX. So, let’s dive in! Being a Lagosian means one thing when it comes to travel, I show up ridiculously early. I’ve never even come close to missing a flight and I wasn’t about to start now. By 3:27 p.m. on September 2, I was already at Murtala Muhammed International A…

ECOWAS, gateway to trade and investment at the fourth intra-African trade fair (IATF 2025) in Algeria | Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

The 2025 Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) was held in the Algerian capital, Algiers, from the 4th to 10th of September 2025, under the theme:“Boosting intra-African trade for a sustainable future: innovation, added value and green industrialisation”.   The opening ceremony was presided over by H.E. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, in the presence of several African and Caribbean Heads of State and Go…

Afreximbank’s new innovation hub targets $70 billion annual gains for Africa

Afreximbank has launched the Africa Research and Innovation Hub (ARIH) with an ambitious goal to turn the continent’s scientific talent into trade, jobs and growth worth as much as US$70 billion every year.Speaking at the Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) 2025 in Algiers, Dr Yemi Kale, Afreximbank’s Group Chief Economist and Managing Director for Research, said the hub is designed to move intellectual capital into industrial competitiveness, fast-…