Digital Marketing 2018

The Executive Director of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) USA, Angela Siefer, will speak at The Africa Forum Toronto 2019 under the theme: Seizing Africa’s Opportunity for Progress, holding from the 13th – 15th September 2019.    Angela has been working in the field we now call digital inclusion since 1997. She has helped […]

  The Planning Committee of the Africa Forum Toronto 2019 is delighted to begin the release of our TAF Canada 2019 Speakers Information, with the announcement of UNCTAD Senior Economist Rashmi Banga as a Speaker at the 2nd edition of the Forum holding from the 13th – 15th September 2019 at the Ontario Investment and […]

  The Africa Forum Toronto 2019 is delighted to have Katie Sullivan as one of our 2019 Speakers.    Katie serves as Managing Director of IETA, the premier global multi-sector business voice for the intersection of markets and climate change. For two decades, IETA’s mission has been to support durable climate policies and financial structures […]

The Barbados Consul General in Toronto, Ms. Sonia Marville-Carter, will speak at the 2nd edition of the Africa Forum Toronto on the panel: FOSTERING AFRICA’S INNOVATION TO MEET THE CONTINENT’S UNIQUE CHALLENGES.   Ms. Sonia Marville-Carter is the representative of the Government and people of Barbados in Canada as Consul General at Toronto.    Having […]

Ambassador Gibril Moseray Fadika, delivering his speech Keynote Address by Ambassador Gibril Santigie Moseray Fadika at the Commonwealth Africa Summit, held in London, UK from the 14th – 16th March 2016. • H.E Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria • Excellencies • Honourable Ministers • Members of Parliament • Representative from the Commonwealth • […]

Nigeria’s former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the west can learn alot from Aficans. The former President and Co-Chair of the Commonwealth Africa Initiative (CAFI) Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Dr. Kofi Anan, former UN Scribe, were among the Key Leaders at the recently concluded Commonwealth Day Service and Commonwealth Africa Summit activities in […]

The Speaker of the National Assembly Ms Baleka Mbete was among the Special Guests Panelists at the Commonwealth Africa Summit 2017 held in London from Monday 13 March to Wedneday 15 March. The 2017 Commonwealth Africa Summit is an annual Summit organised as part of the activities to celebrate the Commonwealth Week in London. Ms […]

As the UK prepares to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meet (CHOGM) in April next year, Prince Charles and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall will be in India for two-days beginning November 8 to mark the celebrations of the ‘UK-India Year of Culture’. But the heir to the British throne will have an […]

COMMONWEALTH countries are urging the British government to give their citizens improved rights after Brexit. Ms Bishop told The Times there would be widespread disappointment in Australia and fellow Commonwealth countries if nothing is done to secure the rights of its population in Britain. She warned her concerns were echoed by New Zealand, India and […]

Britain will find the world economy a competitive place post-Brexit. Its empire may be gone, but its old friends in the Commonwealth may be able to help it out Right now, the UK needs both friends and friends of friends. Post-Brexit, the UK Government aims to rebuild and make the most of the many long relationships its […]

The Commonwealth will help its members recover from shock and adjust to the UK’s decision to withdraw from the European Union, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland told Sky News today. “It’s been a very difficult time, I think most of the Commonwealth leaders and others, from what I’ve picked up, were rather hoping that the United […]

Finance ministers, central bank governors and the Secretary-General will be in the American capital this week to respond to the biggest financial challenges facing Commonwealth countries. Among the topics being considered are the effect of Brexit on member states, how they can manage climatic shocks and the impact of banks pulling out of some of […]

Our specialist trade policy support ‘invaluable’ in Post-Brexit landscape, says Secretary-General Scotland We are ready to support countries through tough post-Brexit trade negotiations, Secretary-General Patricia Scotland will tell Commonwealth finance ministers this week. The Secretary-General will meet ministers during the annual Commonwealth Central Bank Governors and Finance Ministers Meetings in Washington on 5th and 6th […]

Central bank governors have been hearing about the risks Brexit and de-risking poses for Commonwealth countries. They were told that the jury was still out on how Britain’s exit from the European Union would affect trade, remittances, aid and investment in the Commonwealth. Commonwealth governors welcomed G20 efforts to co-ordinate monetary and fiscal policies to […]

Commonwealth countries can do much more to expand trade links with the UK, post-Brexit. That’s the conclusion of trade experts at the Commonwealth Secretariat writing a new set of policy briefings on life after Britain’s decision to pull out of the European Union. At its peak in 2012, UK-Commonwealth Trade accounted for US$120 billion. Last […]