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African govts aiming to âeradicateâ counterfeits with new platform 29-01-2021 01-06-2014 The African Union (AU) has unveiled plans to tackle counterfeits across the continent, with the support of the Saudi-backed Future Investment Initiative (FII). The plan will apply across the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a 54-country agreement brokered by the AU which came into effect in 2019. Described by the AU as an “historic effort and opportunity”, the partnership will employ the services of Swiss firm OriginAll, which operates a platform for tracing the authenticity of goods. According to the AU, OriginAll’s African team will provide a “single window” for businesses, governments, and consumers to verify the authenticity of any product sold within the AfCFTA. ....
Ambassade d Allemagne - Libreville Ambassade d Allemagne au Togo Ambassade d Italie à Alger en Algérie Ambassade de Côte d´Ivoire en Espagne Ambassade de Djibouti à Washington, D.C., États-Unis Ambassade de France à Abidjan, Côte d Ivoire Ambassade de France à Asmara, Erythrée Ambassade de France à Bissau, Guinée-Bissau Ambassade de France à Brazzaville, Congo Ambassade de France à Cotonou Ambassade de France à Dar es Salaam, Tanzanie Ambassade de France à Djibouti Ambassade de France à Khartoum, Soudan Ambassade de France à Lomé, Togo Ambassade de France à Madagascar Ambassade de France à Malabo, Guinée Équatoriale Ambassade de France à Moroni, Comores Ambassade de France à Nouakchott, Mauritanie Ambassade de France à Port-Louis, Maurice ....
RIYADH: The Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute, the organizer of the Kingdom’s flagship forum taking place in Riyadh this week, on Wednesday signed a number of major agreements, including a partnership aimed at protecting over 1.2 billion people from counterfeit and illicit trade in Africa. Addressing a press conference on the second day of the fourth FII forum, Richard Attias, CEO of the institute, announced the three initiatives. The first is a letter of intent between the Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Swiss tech company OriginAll and the FII Institute, to develop technology aimed at protecting people from 54 African nations from counterfeit and illicitly traded products. The agreement was signed in the presence of Attias, Wamkele Mene, secretary-general of the AfCFTA and Hans Schwab, co-founder and CEO of OriginAll. ....
Share: January 28, 2021 The Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the Future Investment Initiative (FII) and OriginAll S.A. announced today a partnership representing a historic effort and opportunity to harness their respective strengths in an effort to eradicate counterfeit and illicitly traded products from the AfCFTA nations. The cooperation is expected to benefit over 1.2 billion people, protect the national interests of the 55 AfCFTA nations and the safety and wellbeing of their citizens. The initiative will deprive criminal, terrorist and disruptive structures from one of their main sources of revenues, channeling back billions of dollars into the region’s legitimate economy. ....