September 2016 Newsletter

President Conde of Guinea Receives ACA

The African Cashew Alliance Managing Director, Babafemi Oyewole paid a visit to the His Excellency Prof. AlphCondé, thePresident of the Republic of Guinea, on Wednesday September 14th 2016. ACA’s Chief Officer in charge of Partnership Development accompanied him in order to look for opportunities in establishing an information and technical knowledge platform along the discussions. The president launched a vast program to...

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ACA Hosts Successful Workshop in Banjul Under USAID WATIH Project

Under its partnership with USAID West Africa Trade & Investment Hub, ACA concluded the last session of the Cashew Processing Business Management & Market Information Systems Training Workshop Series in Banjul, the Gambia from 23rd to 24th August, 2016. The Honorable Minister of Trade, Industry and Employment of the Gambia declared the workshop open after...
 
 

ACA Participates at ECOWAS Technical Meeting on Cashew Processing in West Africa

From 17 and 18 August, 2016, the Managing Director of ACA, Dr. Babafemi Oyewole and the Chief Finance Officer, Mr. Akwasi Adom-Dankwa participated at a technical meeting of the ECOWAS held in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The initiative is part of the implementation strategy of the Industrial Policy of ECOWAS Common Industrial Policy which was presented at the meeting of Ministers of Industry and Quality that took place in Accra in April, 2015. The objective of the technical meeting was...
 
 

ACA Celebrates 10 Years at Annual World Cashew Festival and Expo 2016

From September 19th to 22nd diverse actors of the cashew value chain came together for the 10th Annual ACA World Cashew Festival and Expo in Bissau, Guinea Bissau, which was themed “A Decade of Transformation”. Over 300 participants from all over the globe attended the conference. Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the ACA, this year’s conference was certainly a special event. It featured 12 exhibitors, 4 plenary sessions, 6 World Cashew Forum sessions, and over 360 official business-to-business meetings. As a unique opportunity, this year ACA also offered...