Sahel Business Week in Grand North : Initiative To Relaunch Economic Activities

The inaugural Sahel Business Week; an initiative to relaunch economic activities in the country’s northern regions rendered fragile by insecurity, will take place from August 24 to September 1, 2019, organisers have said. Sahel Business Week will feature lectures, workshops, exhibitions and concerts in Maroua, Ngaoundere and Garoua. Organisers made known details of the initiative while holding a pre-event meeting with administrative authorities in Yaounde late last month.
According to Daniel Kalbassou, General Manager of Credit du Sahel, organiser of the Sahel Business Week, the event will be an ideal rendezvous for businessmen just like the mercato is for footballers. He said it will enable businessmen in the southern part of the country to explore the business opportunities inherent in the northern part of the country.
Before the onslaught of the Boko Haram insurgency, just over 60 per cent of trade in the North and Far North Regions was done with neighbouring Nigeria. Ins...