The Qatar-Africa Business Forum arrives in Ivory Coast. Indeed, the Minister of Commerce, Industry and Crafts, Kalil Konaté, received in audience the Ambassador of the State of Qatar in Côte d'Ivoire, Mubarak Hussain Al Marri, accompanied by the second secretary of the Embassy Rachid Al Megareh. This meeting is part of the last phase of mobilization before an event presented as the most important economic meeting between Doha and the African continent organized so far in Côte d'Ivoire.

Thus, after Doha, Kigali, Rabat and Johannesburg, the Ivorian economic capital is hosting this edition for the first time, the result of a proposal put forward by the Embassy Qatari from 2024 to the Minister of Economy, Planning and Development, of the period, Nialé Kaba. The forum will cover various strategic sectors such as agriculture, agro-industry, infrastructure, logistics, technologies, innovation, hospitality, the creative economy, fashion, crafts and cinema. the room for progress that this forum intends to fill. The announced presence of representatives of the World Bank and other international institutions alongside the 95 Qatari companies aims precisely to transform this diplomatic potential into concrete business partnerships.

Until November, bilateral meetings are increasing in Abidjan, a sign that this forum promises to be a turning point in economic cooperation ivory-Qatari.