Tunis: Tunisia will benefit from its membership of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which offers a number of incentives to investors, including exemption from customs duties, so that it can become a gateway to Africa, President of the Tunisia-Africa Business Council (TABC) Anis Jaziri said on Tuesday. Speaking at the opening of the 7th edition of the Financing Investment and Trade in Africa (FITA 2024), held on June 11-12 in Tunis, Jaziri added that this event offers Tunisia the possibility to become an economic gateway to sub-Saharan Africa, indicating that "the important number of participants testifies to the confidence in Tunisia as a strategic investment destination given its openness to Europe and Africa." As for the Nigerian market, Jaziri said it is a market with over 200 million people, including 100 million muslims, adding that 35 Nigerian businessmen will partake in this forum and that a business mission to Nigeria will be organised next September. For her part, Minister of Indu stry, Energy, Mines Fatma Thabet Chiboub pointed out the attractiveness of Tunisia, an AfCFTA and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member, indicating that it offers several investment opportunities with the African market, notably in the pharmaceutical industries, textile and automotive components fields. The African Continent remains a land of opportunity, wealth, growth and intelligence despite the various challenges it faces, citing migration, climate change and political crises, she said. These challenges can be beaten, she argued, calling for natural resources to be harnessed and for African industry to be developed. Organised at the initiative of TABC, this edition will be themed "Strengthening Local Transformation and Technology Transfer for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in Africa." Poland will be the guest of honnour of this edition. Over 2,000 participants from 65 countries, mostly African, will partake in this event, considered as the major forum in Africa. Source: Ag ence Tunis Afrique Presse