Kitab Unango
Africa-Press – South-Sudan. The South Sudan business community expressed readiness to join Africa Business Council (AFBC).
The AFBC is a continental body that provides a platform for private sector cooperation and engagement within Africa.
The Chairperson of the South Sudan Business Community and Employer Federation, Ayii Duang Ayii, highlighted the private sector’s interest during a meeting with a delegation from the continental business organisation in Juba on Saturday. The meeting was attended by the Chairperson of the Africa Private Sector Summit (APSS), Wendell Addy.
The other notable attendee was the Chief Executive Officer of Africa Centre of Transport, Infrastructure and Regional Integration (ACTIRI), Silvester Kasuku, who also serves as the technical advisor to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).
Ayii said the business community was ready to join the body through the support of APSS and ACTIRI whose vision is to have a competitive, innovative, and borderless Africa for trade, investment, and industrialisation.
“We are ready and would want to join the council and we call on the Africa Private Sector Summit leadership to help us to become part of the council,” said Duang.
The AFBC, established in line with the African Union Assembly Decision in 2012, aims at boosting intra-African trade and fast-tracking the establishment of the Africa Continental Free Area.
It advocates for the African business interest of the private sector in the African region, and promotes trade, industrialisation, and investment amongst the African private sectors and between Africa and the world.
Furthermore, AFBC fosters cooperation and collaboration between the African private sector, business organisations, and other related bodies in Africa as well as those outside Africa.
Mr. Addy invited the South Sudan Business Community to Kigali Rwanda for the November business conference.
The conference was to unleash strong partnerships among Africa’s business and private sectors and with the governments.
“I urge you to extend this invitation to the President of the Republic and the Ministry of Trade and Industry to take part in the conference,” Addy said.
He added that the conference would focus on the ‘Co-owner of production’ as a solution to African problems “If [individuals] own a minimum of 40 per cent of what [they] expect in a value change transportation, will stabilise the local currency,” he added.
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