In services, the Middle East recorded the highest export growth for the fourth consecutive year, thanks to its thriving air transport sector, tourism and IT services. However, in the Commonwealth of Independent States and in Africa, exports of all services categories plunged. African economies recorded a sharp decline in services imports as falling energy prices cut revenues of oil exporters in the region, reducing their capacity to buy services from abroad.
Fragment from the World Trade Statistical Review
The economic situation in the region of the Middle East and Africa is changing, it opens the market of the region, which is able to accept the import of goods and services or to sell its goods at a low price.