{"id":13822,"date":"2022-07-12T15:03:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T15:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/?p=13822"},"modified":"2022-07-12T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T15:03:58","slug":"high-commissioner-dr-morie-manyeh-attends-africa-house-londons-unlock-africa-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/?p=13822","title":{"rendered":"HIGH COMMISSIONER Dr MORIE MANYEH ATTENDS AFRICA HOUSE LONDON\u2019S \u201cUNLOCK AFRICA \u201c LAUNCH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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HE. Dr Morie Manyeh, Sierra Leone\u2019s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was in attendance at the launch of the Africa House London\u2019s \u201cUnlock Africa\u201d campaign which is geared toward exploring the expansion of U.K. investment prospects in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event which took place in the Strangers\u2019 Dining Room in the House of Commons on Tuesday this week was hosted by Sir Iain Duncan Smith, MP, and included a weighted list of guests and speakers ranging from the Governor of Niger State in Nigeria (HE Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello), and the UK Prime Minister\u2019s Trade Envoy to Ghana (The RT Hon. Baroness Hoey of Lylehill and Rathlin) to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Minister for London (Paul Scully) and Citi Bank MD and Cluster Head, Sub-Saharan Africa (Akinsowon Dawodu).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organisers of the event, Africa House, a trade agency that has been established to encourage direct private and public sector investment in the rising African market noted that the campaign is to stimulate bilateral trade and commerce between the continent and the UK in a post- Brexit and COVID-19 period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accompanied by First Secretary, Jo. Goakai and Information Attache, Abdulai Braima, HE Manyeh had meaningful exchanges with Andrew Boff, the Chairman Africa House, the Rt Hon Paul Scully, MP, and Governor Bello of Niger State, on the state of affairs in Sierra Leone in terms of trade and investment opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Manyeh also had fruitful discussions with a number of business executives present, on the prospects of investing in Sierra Leone and he held group discussions with his colleague diplomats including the Ghanaian and South African High Commissioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even as Britain is gearing towards expanding and deepening its trade footprints on the continent, following Brexit, African countries are gradually moving forward in a concerted effort to forge a closer economic and monetary union as exemplified by the recent ratification of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA) by 54 countries on the continent. The goal is to establish a single market for goods and services across the continent and to ease trade amongst the countries constituting this giant geographic bloc, as well as with other interested entities outside of Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information please contact
Abdulai Braima
information.attache@uk.slhc.gov.sl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London.13th October, 2021. HE. Dr Morie Manyeh, Sierra Leone\u2019s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was in attendance at the launch of the Africa House London\u2019s \u201cUnlock Africa\u201d campaign which is geared toward exploring the expansion of U.K. investment prospects in Africa. The event which took place in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13826,"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13822\/revisions\/13826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}