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The Common Market for Eastern and Southern African States (COMESA) is Africa’s largest economic community, with a market size estimated at over 500 million consumers by 2015. With its strategic location, economic and geographic diversity, it offers unparalleled opportunities for African and International investors.

Bountiful in natural resources and advantageously placed on high traffic trading routes, the Suez Canal, Red Sea and Indian Ocean, the true potential for investment in COMESA is yet to be fully realised.

This top-level two-day forum offers you the opportunity to update your knowledge of COMESA's business environment and investment climate.

The event is specifically designed to promote dialogue and action between investors, business leaders and senior policy makers, to create the necessary framework and drive investment opportunities and growth in COMESA and Africa.

It is a unique platform for over 500 industry leaders to network and engage one-on-one with Ministers from the 19 member states.

COMESA Regional Investment Agency (RIA) are pleased to front this milestone event - organized by IC Events – in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Investment and under the auspices of H.E. Mohamed Hosny Mubarak, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.

COMESA’s member states include: Burundi, Comoros, D.R. Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.