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Algeria, which will welcome, from September 4 to 10, the 4th edition of the intra-African trade fair (IATF) has put all the human and material resources to make the 2025 edition a certain success. The objective being to make this event a real lever to energize exchanges, attract investments and strengthen the economic integration of the continent.
Placed under the theme “A bridge towards new opportunities”, this edition has been the most ambitious since the launch of the IATF in 2018, both by the number of actors present and by the planned economic agreements. With more than 2,000 exhibitors from 75 countries, 35,000 expected professional visitors, trade agreements and investments that can exceed $ 44 billion, IATF 2025 presents itself as a major catalyst for African economic integration. Organized at the Palais des Exhibitions (Pins Maritimes-Algiers), this continental event will be held in collaboration with the African import-export bank (Afreximbank), initiator of this fair, the African Union Commission and the secretariat of the continental African free trade area (ZLECAF).
The exhibition program is particularly rich. In addition to the multisectoral exhibition (agriculture, industry, energy, finance, health, transport, research, innovation, startups, etc.), several events are planned. These include the trade and investment forum, the summit of the creative industries (Creative Africa Nexus-Canex), the B2B meetings, as well as the special day devoted to the African diaspora and the African Automobile Salon. The fair will also be marked by spaces devoted to young African entrepreneurs creating startups, university students and researchers, as well as by special days open to countries and entities of the public and private sectors to assert their opportunities in terms of trade, investment, tourism and culture.
The ambition displayed is to make this most striking edition of the IATF, in terms of economic impact and international visibility, while reaffirming the role of Algeria as a locomotive of African development.
To ensure the success of this fair, Algeria mobilizes all the necessary organizational and logistical means with the aim of making this major meeting a lever for economic emergence. At the meeting of the Council of Ministers of April 20, the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, had ordered the establishment of all the facilitations necessary for the participation of African partners in this economic event which is of particular importance for the promotion of intra-African trade, as well as all the measures and provisions capable of contributing to its success for the benefit of the national and African economies.
He also ordered close coordination and the combination of efforts, in order to ensure the full success of this edition, having regard to the experience of Algeria and his role as leader at African and International levels.
The preparations initiated by Algeria for the success of this event were repeatedly hailed by the organizing partners. The President of the IATF Advisory Council, former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, was confident, during a promotional event organized in Algiers in early July last, on the success of this major event, while stressing that the 2025 edition “which benefits from great interest and support of the Algerian authorities, under the leadership of the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune” In the “economic emancipation” process of the African continent.