NIK OGBULIE ( in Algiers)
The Intra-African Trade Fair already on a very high pitch in Algiers since yesterday reminds one of the promise made by a former European Union Director of Trade, Pascal Lammy. who eventually became a Director’General of. WTO. Lammy had told the 21 African journalistspwho were funded for. Trade Journalism workshop in preparation for the much orchestrated ACP’-EU Workshops, better called Cotonou Agreement. It was a sort of an economic partnership agreement which was partially successful because the critical African economies failed to ratify it.
As a matter of fact, not much incentives for industrial growth came out of it. It therefore failed where IATF succeeded. The IATF has shown enough dash to remain very successful, after all , Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, an IATF protagonist should know more.
That more stands are springing up in this sprawling Algiers sub,-urban, two days into the programme indicates good bus
