The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is a subsidiary organ of the United Nations General Assembly, established in 1964 to promote trade, investment, and growth in producing states. The Conference includes high-level round tables on key issues in the international economic debate. Informal thematic side events are also held with the aim to promote interactive discussions on development issues. The assemblies are split up in 5 shares, that hold on from 17 July to 21 July in Nairobi. First: 17th-20th July 2016 - World Leaders Summit and the 5th World Investment Forum. The second: 15th-16th July 2016 - 7th Commodities Forum. The third 15th-17th July 2016 - Civil Society Forum. The fourth 15th-17th July 2016 - Regional Group Meetings G77 Ministerial meeting. Final meeting: 19th-21st July 2016 - Youth Forum.

The World Leaders Summit will offer an opportunity for Heads of State and Government to exchange views with the Business Leaders on the vision for investment in the context of sustainable growth.

The 2016 Global Commodities Forum will discuss the current situation in emerging economies by way of introduction, then focus on its implications for commodity-dependent developing countries (CDDCs) and on their commodity-led development strategies, reliant as they are on exports to emerging economies.

Since its inception, UNCTAD has recognized that civil society has an increasingly important role to play in efforts to achieve sustainable human development and alleviate poverty.
The Youth Forum will discuss several issues that have been keyed out by Youth worldwide, which are major subjects of fear following a United Nations study that was taken out in 2015. These are better education, more and better jobs and state accountability.

You can read more about the conference here and here.

For more about Africa, you can look into our lexicon or into the analyze written by President of Center for International Relations.