Egypt will host on May 5 the first African-Arab trade forum for companies and businessmen in which a number of major African and Arab companies are expected to participate, Arab Exporters & Importers Union secretary-general Mossad Abdel Hamid Rashid told MENA correspondent in Khartoum on Thursday.
Eighty companies from Saudi Arabia, 50 from Jordan, 300 from Egypt and other companies from Sudan, South Sudan and six other African countries have announced their participation in the forum.
This forum comes within the Egyptian leadership's approach to the African countries.