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South Africa's Minister of Tourism, Mr Derek Hanekom convened the African continent's leaders to relax the visa policy and sign the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) to increase the inflow of African tourists.

According to the IMF, from 2000 to 2016, Ethiopia was the third-fastest country of 10 million people in the world , as measured by GDP per capita.

The 2nd summit on the Belt and Road initiative was successfully concluded in Beijing on April 27. The bilateral exchanges between China and Africa have increased in the past 15 years.

In the past decade, Africa's total private wealth has increased by 13%, and private wealth totaled $2.3 trillion. These figures are expected to increase by 34% in the next decade and reach $3.1 trillion by the end of 2027.

Last year, as many as 360 companies in Africa achieved unprecedented growth.

The East Africa, Southern Africa and Indian Ocean Islands trade(abbreviated as ESAf) has a coastline of approximately 21,000 km, facing the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and a part of South Africa and all parts of Namibia have the South Atlantic coastline.

Ethiopia has high hopes for manufacturing and export products, but the country will not be competitive until it solves its logistics problems. To this end, Ethiopia began to liberalize the logistics department.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria's manufacturing sector is dominated by food, beverage and tobacco production, with the largest production of sugar and bread.

Nigeria has made outstanding progress in the export of agricultural products and manufactured goods in 2018. The export value of agriculture and manufacturing sectors increased by 896.9% and 278.2% respectively compared with 2017, reaching N302.3 billion and N645.7 billion.