DCCI Chief: Dubai Chamber plans more offices in Africa
Dubai’s rapidly growing share of trade with Africa has encouraged the emirate’s business representative body to enter into a dialogue with more countries to open their office there. After tasting success in Ethopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, where they opened an office last year,The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) is currently in talks in Nigeria, South Africa, Angola, Kenya and Ghana said Hamad Bu Amim, president and chief executive of the DCCI on the sidelines of the ongoing Swift International Banking Operations Seminar (Sibos) . “We have started seeing the results of opening in Addis Ababa, business for our traders has jumped more than 100 per cent within a year and we expect that to continue,” Bu Amim said. “Addis Ababa is like what Belgium is to Europe. That is where the African Union is located and we are on our way expanding in other places.”