West Africa Business Association
Southern Africa Business Forum

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Welcome to the website of The West Africa Business Association (WABA), formerly the West Africa Committee which was established in 1956.Welcome also to the Southern Africa Business Forum (SABF) which was formed in 2004. Click here for a short history of WABA. Discover how WABA~SABF is organised.

WABA~SABF is a group of over 350 companies and entrepreneurs having interests in West and/or Southern Africa, and closely linked with the EU through its membership of the British African Business Association (BABA) which is part of the European Business Council for Africa and the Mediterranean (EBCAM) and with its association with the Britain Nigeria Business Council (BNBC)

WABA~SABF's Mission is to:

Assist members to transact business successfully in the sub regions, to the benefit of both members and the countries in which they are active. This is achieved through five main areas of activity:

Information - Sourcing and dissemination of authoritative information on the countries comprising the two regions, covering commercial, economic and political intelligence via confidential, economic and political reports and regular business briefings, including with VIPs. Click below for an example of a recent West Africa Regional Report:
NIGERIA REPORT
COMMODITY REPORT

Networking - Promotion of networking opportunities for members, drawing together offshore businessmen, their counterparts in West, Central and Southern Africa and luminaries in the regions' governments and public sectors. Click here for meetings programme

Influence & Advocacy - Propagation of the views of members on improving the business environment in the regions to both local and offshore governments. Also discreet lobbying of these governments and international organisations on behalf of the collective membership. Click here for full membership lists in UK, Nigeria & Ghana

 

Help - Practical assistance to members doing business in the regions, including administrative problems (e.g. visas and airport pick-ups), specific business arrangements (e.g. intervention, often at Ministerial and Ambassadorial level), and access to certain advantageous arrangements in local hotels etc. Click to enlarge Map of Regional Representation in the WABA~SABF areas of influence

Promotion - Positive promotion of member companies through the Associations' joint website, publications and events through the year, together with contacts in the media and other important trade, business, lobbying and African interested bodies.

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