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Africa: 14th U.S.-Africa Business Summit Wraps Up #AfricaBizSummt
MAP, 22 July 2022
The 14th US-Africa Business Summit wrapped up on Friday in Marrakech, after three days of constructive exchange and debate around the theme "Building the future together". Read more »
Corporate Council on Africa (Washington, DC)
Challenges & Opportunities- #AfricaBizSummit 2022 Concludes
The 14th U.S.-Africa Business Summit concluded in Marrakesh with a closing ceremony addresed by Florie Liser, resident and CEO of the Corporate Council on Africa which organized the event from July 19-22, 2022. Also speaking was Dana Banks, Senior Advisor for the U.S.-African Leaders Summit that was announced on the opening day in a video address by Vice President Kamala Harris. She was introduced by Alice Albright, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, who led the U.S. delegation.
Over the three days, participants took part in panels focussing on a broad range of sectors with opportunities for expanding business engagement across the continent. Sessions include financing, climate, agricultural transformation, investing in woman, health outcomes and economic integration and the African Continental Free Trade Area. Senior leaders from the U.S. and African private sector and civil society are taking part along with African and U.S. government officials.
Among those who spoke during the Summit: African Development Bank President Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina; Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and Chakib Alj, president of the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises; Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi; Ghana's Trade and Industry Minister Alan Kyerematen; Carole Kariuki, CEO, Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA); Travis Adkins, President and CEO, U.S. African Development Foundation; Leslie Marbury, Acting COO, Prosper Africa;Wamkele Mene, Secretary General, AfCFTA Secretariat.
Florie Liser, President and CEO of the Corporate Council on Africa and Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, addressing the U.S.-Africa Business Summit ion Marrakesh.
Omosalewa Adeyemi, Head of Global Partnerships & Expansion @theflutterwave, and Wamkele Mene, Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area, speaking at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit
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Africa: MCC Leads Delegation at U.S.-Africa Business Summit, Deepens Partnership with Morocco
USMCC, 22 July 2022
The Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) Chief Executive Officer, Alice Albright, departed Marrakech, Morocco today after leading the U.S. delegation at the 14th U.S.-Africa… Read more »
Alan Kyerematen, Minister of Trade and Industry of Ghana, and Admassu Tadesse, Chief Executive (President Emeritus) of the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank, speaking during the U.S.-Africa Business Summit on Africa in Marrakesh.
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25 July 2022
Travis Adkins - Small Businesses Are Key to Economic Success in Africa
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Travis Adkins, President and CEO of the U.S. African Development Foundation, speaking to Morocco World News during the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in ... see more »
LEFT: Enoh T. Ebong, Director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), Florie Lister, President and CEO of the Corporate Council on Africa and Alice Albright, the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) Chief Executive Officer, at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Marrakesh. RIGHT: Ejike Egbuagu, CEO of @MonedaInvest, speaking at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit on how Africa can bolster economic opportunities
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Africa: Remarks by Vice President Harris to the 2022 U.S.-Africa Business Summit #AfricaBizSummit
White House, 20 July 2022
Via Recorded Video - As Prepared for Delivery Read more »
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20 July 2022
Vice President Harris Delivers Remarks to CCA Summit
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Video address by Vice President Kamala Harris to the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Morocco on July 20, 2022. READ the transcript. see more »
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CCA, 21 July 2022
During her virtual remarks at the opening ceremony of the U.S.-Africa Business Summit, Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris announced that the White House will host… Read more »
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Africa: Remarks by CEO Alice Albright at the Corporate Council for U.S.-Africa Business Summit
USMCC, 20 July 2022
I am delighted to be heading the U.S. Delegation to the 14th annual U.S.- Africa Business Summit, where I am joined by senior leaders from across the U.S. Government. Read more »
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Speaking by video to the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Morocco, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the U.S. Africa Leaders Summit will take place in Washington, DC from ... Read more »
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Africa: Morocco Gateway to Africa - FM Tells #AfricaBizSummit
MAP, 20 July 2022
The organization in Morocco of the 14th edition of the US-Africa Business Summit (July 19-22), whose proceedings began Wednesday in Marrakech, is an enshrinement of the natural… Read more »
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Morocco: Morocco, MCC Commend Dynamic Partnership
MAP, 21 July 2022
The Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch, and president of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Alice Albright, welcomed, Wednesday in Marrakech, the dynamism of their… Read more »
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Africa: U.S.-Africa Business Summit Opens in Marrakech - Corporate Council On Africa CEO #AfricaBizSummit
MAP, 18 July 2022
The 14th edition of the US-Africa Business Summit kicks off on Tuesday in Marrakech, at the initiative of the "Corporate Council on Africa" (CCA), under the theme "building the… Read more »
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Prosper Africa, 19 July 2022
Hon. Alice Albright, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), will lead the U.S. Prosper Africa delegation to the U.S.-Africa Business Summit, July 19-22. The event is… Read more »
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Morocco: LFMTL - Large Scale Project Born of Exemplary Morocco-Us Partnership - Minister
MAP, 18 July 2022
The Training Institute in Transport and Logistics (French acronym IFMTL) of Nouaceur is a large-scale project born of an exemplary partnership between Morocco and the United… Read more »
InFocus
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The U.S.-Africa Business Summit is the first major in-person U.S.-Africa conference that meets the pent-up demand for countries and companies to re-engage and collaborate since the ... Read more »
