2015

From 5th to 7th October, the Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) welcomed a distinguished group of business leaders to Port Moresby, for a high-level investment mission.

The Ocean Economy – sometimes referred to as the Blue Economy – is becoming a topic of increasing importance, not only for the small island developing states themselves but also for the world as a whole, and is one of the key action points of the Sustainable Development Goals, the successor programme to the Millennium Developm

On 16th September, the Government of Liberia came to New York, for the US-Liberia Trade & Investment Forum: the country’s first significant outreach to investors post Ebola. The fourth in a series of Liberian events organised by DMA and led by HE Joseph N.

In line with the Government of Côte d'Ivoire’s agenda for attracting international investors, the mission was designed to allow for substantive and meaningful engagement with the government, for both established international companies and potential new investors. It culminated in a meeting with HE Alassane Ouattara, President of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire.
 

On 17th March DMA hosted the Hon Kerfalla Yansane, Minister of Mines for Guinea, at a lunch discussion in Parliament. Chaired by former Minister of Africa Henry Bellingham MP, the meeting enabled the Minister to update mining executives on the current situation in Guinea and in turn to hear a number of ideas as to what Guinea and others should now be doing to revitalise the country’s economy after the devastation wrought by the Ebola crisis.

In October 2014 DMA hosted a highly successful trade and investment forum in London for Rwanda. At that forum the pledge was made to follow up the investor interest created with a trade mission to Rwanda to enable investors to have further discussions with government ministers and officials.