IATF 2025: Obasanjo Praises Algeria’s Role in the High Standard of the 4th Edition
Former president of Nigeria and president of the Advisory Council of the Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF), Olusegun Obasanjo, praised Monday, at the Maritime Pines Exhibition Palace (Algiers), the high level that marked the 4th IATF, highlighting, in this regard, the efforts of the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
In a dialogue session on the sidelines of the Fair, Obasanjo said that “during the past eight years, four editions of this fair have been organized, and at each edition we have reached a superior level,” adding that this edition “has been exceptional and of a high level.”
Nigeria’s former president praised “the efforts deployed by the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, in order to ensure the success of this edition, in the interest of Algeria and Africa in general.”
Emphasizing “the importance of relaunching development in Africa in order to establish stability and protect its peoples from conflicts and disputes,” Obasanjo said that “most of the conflicts that the continent experiences stem from poor management and lack of solutions.”
For the president of the IATF Advisory Council, “it is essential to achieve African unity and highlight the essential role that the African diaspora can play in this regard,” underscoring that the founding fathers of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) had well understood that “what the continent really needs is the unity of its peoples.”
Concerning IATF, he underlined that it constitutes “an opportunity to discover African producers and products, and to explore the means to develop them through purely African institutions such as Afreximbank, as well as through the establishment of the free trade area.”
