The Egyptian Union of Investment Groups received an invitation to visit Nigeria in order to identify investment opportunities in the Nigerian market. The Union received the request from the Egyptian Foreign Ministry. The conference is to be held in December in Nigeria and will study the needs of the Nigerian market and discuss ways to increase the volume of bilateral trader between the two countries. A consortium of investors recently completed a visit to the State of Zambia. The Zambian government decided to allocate a free zone in the Union for foreign investors wishing to enter the domestic market there.