Africa: President Urges Deeper South Africa-Japan Trade and Investment Ties

Africa: President Urges Deeper South Africa-Japan Trade and Investment Ties

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for stronger economic and investment partnerships between South Africa and Japan, highlighting the opportunities in critical minerals, renewable energy, agriculture and advanced manufacturing. Addressing the South Africa-Japan Business Forum on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Summit in Yokohama on Thursday, the President said the…

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Africa: President Urges Deeper South Africa-Japan Trade and Investment Ties

Africa: Ghib CEO Outlines Plan to Finance Africa’s Value-Addition Drive … Calls for Trade Finance to Break Raw Export Cycle

Cheapside, London — Dean Adansi, Chief Executive Officer of Ghana International Bank (GHIB), has unveiled a financing blueprint aimed at breaking Africa’s dependence on raw commodity exports and driving investment into local value addition. Speaking to the BBC on the sidelines of GHIB CONVERGE 2025 in London, Adansi argued that Africa is losing billions of…

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Africa: President Urges Deeper South Africa-Japan Trade and Investment Ties

Africa’s ‘Land-Linked’ Nations Chart a New Trade Route to Prosperity

Awaza, Turkmenistan — Once relegated to the periphery of Africa’s economic map due to their lack of coastline, the continent’s landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) are now reframing their geographic constraints as gateways to opportunity. At the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries held this week in Awaza, Turkmenistan, the UN Development Programme (UNDP)…

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Africa: President Urges Deeper South Africa-Japan Trade and Investment Ties

Africa: Landlocked Nations ‘Invisible to Much of the World’ – UN Trade and Development Chief

Trapped by geography and squeezed by global market forces, the world’s 32 landlocked developing countries remain among the poorest – and most overlooked. At a major UN conference underway this week in Awaza, Turkmenistan, calls are growing to tackle the high trade costs, investment gaps and growing digital divide that continue to hold these countries…

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Africa: President Urges Deeper South Africa-Japan Trade and Investment Ties

Africa: UN Chief – Trade Corridors, Connectivity Vital for Landlocked Nations’ Future

ADDIS ABABA – Trade corridors, streamlined transit systems, and deeper regional integration are essential lifelines for Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said. He made the remark recently at the opening of the Third UN Conference on LLDCs (LLDC3) in Awaza, Turkmenistan. In his address, Guterres urged world leaders to rethink global…

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