Ghana-Sudan Business Expo on Monday
This year’s Ghana-Sudan Business, Culture and Higher Education Expo will take place in Accra from Monday, July 10 to Wednesday, July 12.
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Aimed at strengthening bilateral relations between Ghana and Sudan through business and culture, the platform will offer opportunity for the patrons to consolidate good political and diplomatic relations between the two countries.
The expo is being held on the theme: “Towards Ghana-Sudan Meaningful Partnership: Investing in the Future.”
Key components of the event will include a session for sharing the history, culture and selected fine art works by famous painters, as well as written literature.
Officials
The Minister of Business Development, Mr Ibrahim Awal Mohammed, and the Sudanese Minister of State at the Ministry of Investment, Mr Osama Fiasal, will jointly officiate the event.
At a media launch of the event in Accra last Wednesday, the Sudanese Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Babikir Elsiddig Mohammed Elamin, said the initiative would foster partnership in key sectors of the economies of the two countries.
“The event will effect a change in the prevailing misconception that tends to undermine what Africans can do together by way of business partnerships and joint ventures,” he said.
He said by introducing business communities in both countries, it would help establish and nurture bilateral business collaboration and partnership to sustain and consolidate the good political and diplomatic relations that already existed between the two countries.
“We equally hope the expo will effect a change in the prevailing misconception that tends to underestimate what Africans can do together by way of business partnerships and joint ventures,” Mr Elamin stated.
He was of the view that, in the quest to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from outside the continent, we often overlook the huge potential and opportunities that lie in joint venture cooperations as Africans and, in fact, the real impact of investment by African countries in one another.
Apt theme
He described the theme for the expo as apt, especially when it was focused on investment in higher education and local businesses.
Mr Elamin said it was important for both countries to explore innovative ways by which appropriate technologies could be deployed to facilitate business development.