Namibia signs 3 bilateral agreements with Guinea to promote, agri, mining, tourism

Namibia has signed three bilateral agreements with Guinea on May 8 in Windhoek this week in the areas of mining, agriculture, and tourism.

The signing of the three agreements was slightly delayed because some Guinean ministers could not make it on time due to their Air Namibia flight being cancelled. The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said this when she hosted Guinea's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mamadi Toure.

She said in her speech that the JCC is a platform that the two nations can use to review the bilateral cooperation as well as to explore possible areas of cooperation. "It is my conviction that Guinea will join our exclusive list of niche markets and serve as ideal export destination for our fish and fish products, beef, leather products, salt and other minerals," she said.

According to Nandi-Ndaitwah, Namibia expects to receive various products as imports to retail stores from Guinea like processed cocoa products, root crops, vegetable oil and seeds such as raw and processes Shea nuts as well as apparel among others. "It is our belief that through the Africa Continental Free Trade Area, we will be able to strengthen trade among ourselves as Africans," she added, as reported by Namibia Economist.

Nandi-Ndaitwah also said that Namibia will continue to work with Guinea and the rest of Africa in achieving the African Union's objectives and especially the causes of building unity, peace and social justice on the continent.

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