Showcase supplied enriching discussions by political, enterprise and different leaders on key Intra-African commerce points throughout the convention phase of the commerce honest, with a number of the most sough-after African and worldwide audio system taking part.
Occasion welcomed 2,148 exhibitors and featured main actions, together with a commerce exhibition by international locations and companies.
B2B and B2G matchmaking programmes have been held to facilitate strategic partnerships and authorities collaborations to unlock new alternatives.
A complete of US$48.3 billion in commerce and funding offers have been entered into on the simply concluded Intra-African Commerce Honest (IATF2025), hosted in Algiers, Algeria.
The fourth version of the Intra-African Commerce Honest attracted over 112,000 guests each bodily and people following the proceedings just about from 132 international locations. Moreover, a complete of 958 consumers participated within the weeklong occasion.
Based on the IATF2025 Report Card, the occasion welcomed 2,148 exhibitors and featured main actions, together with a commerce exhibition by international locations and companies. It additionally concerned a four-day commerce and funding discussion board graced by main African and worldwide audio system.
IATF2025 additionally noticed the rollout of the Artistic Africa Nexus (CANEX) programme with its personal devoted exhibition protecting trend, music, movie, arts and craft, sports activities, literature and gastronomy, in addition to the Africa Automotive Present.
The strong and enriching programme additionally included 9 Particular Days hosted by international locations and organisations to showcase their commerce and funding alternatives, together with an IATF2025 International Africa Day that highlighted industrial and cultural ties between Africa and its diaspora, the Come up IIP Industrial Day and the Dangote Day in addition to Nation Days by Algeria, Kenya, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Cote d’Ivoire.
B2B and B2G matchmaking at IATF2025
B2B and B2G matchmaking programmes have been held to facilitate strategic partnerships and authorities collaborations to unlock new alternatives whereas the AU Youth Begin-Up Programme showcased revolutionary concepts and prototypes, and the Africa Analysis and Innovation Hub @ IATF focused the academia and nationwide researchers.
The actions have been preceded by the IATF Digital Platform which had already been reside all year long, connecting exhibitors and guests.
The opening ceremony, addressed by Algerian President, H.E. Abdelmadjid Tebboune amongst different dignitaries, featured a energetic summit model dialogue that noticed the participation of fourteen (14) Heads of State and authorities, six representatives of presidency in addition to 41 ministers and deputy ministers.
Held biennially, IATF supplies a platform for companies in Africa and the remainder of the world to showcase their items and companies to guests and consumers whereas exchanging info and exploring alternatives.
The weeklong Honest held from 4-5 September 2025 in Algiers, Algeria was organised by African Export-Import Financial institution (Afreximbank) in partnership with the African Union Fee (AUC) and the African Continental Free Commerce Space (AfCFTA) Secretariat.
Addressing the closing ceremony, former President of Nigeria and Chairman of the Advisory Council of IATF2025, Olusegun Obasanjo, mentioned that the commerce honest had surpassed all expectations and targets set by the organisers and expressed “a way of accomplishment and feeling of satisfaction” on the final result.
Dynamic partnerships
Chief Obasanjo attributed the profitable final result to the colourful exchanges and dynamic partnerships that pervaded the commerce honest and mentioned that, greater than being only a commerce honest, IATF2025 was a testomony to a extra built-in and affluent Africa.
He added: “Via vibrant exchanges and partnerships, IATF2025 has exceeded our expectations and now stands as the most important ever. It has sown the seed of future prosperity for our shared imaginative and prescient of an economically built-in Africa. We have to proceed constructing on these established connections in exploring new alternatives, working collectively to grasp the complete advantages of AfCFTA.”
There have been additionally enriching discussions by political, enterprise and different leaders on key Intra-African commerce points throughout the convention phase of the commerce honest, with a number of the most sough-after African and worldwide audio system taking part.
Different key outcomes emanating from the occasion embody: Institutionalisation of the Intra-African Commerce Honest as a stand-alone treaty-based entity known as IATFCO with headquarters in Harare, Zimbabwe; Announcement of Lagos, Nigeria, as venue of the following IATF in 2027 and presentation of the Internet hosting Flag to the Nigerian Minister of Commerce, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole; and Award of the internet hosting rights for the Sixth African Sub-Sovereign Governments Community (AfSNET) Funding Convention in 2026 to Cross River State of Nigeria, with Calabar because the designated venue.
The Internet hosting Settlement was signed by Governor Bassey Edet Otu on behalf of Cross River State, and Mrs Kanayo Awani, Govt Vice President of Intra-African Commerce and Export Growth on behalf of Afreximbank.
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Established industrial worth chains
Algeria, which had emerged a pure alternative for IATF2025 due to its established industrial worth chains, diversified economic system and strategic location, ended up accounting for $11.4 billion of the $48.3-billion contracts signed on the commerce honest, representing 23.6 per cent of the overall offers that have been closed on the honest. Extra export alternatives/commitments for Algerian corporations from the Honest, amounting to $11.6 billion, are nonetheless scheduled to be signed.
Algerian companies additionally took benefit of IATF2025 to showcase their merchandise, appeal to funding and join with new companions, enabling them to determine long-term enterprise relationships and connections with counterparts in different African international locations in assist of AfCFTA implementation.
As well as, the robust turnout of individuals attracted heightened media visibility to Algeria, elevating the Maghreb nation’s profile and considerably boosting its commerce prospects whereas the tourism and hospitality sectors benefitted from a growth in patronage of inns, transport and logistics corporations, tour operators and different companies within the worth chain.
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