Credit: African Media Agency
During her digital remarks on the opening ceremony of the U.S.-Africa Business Summit, Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris introduced that the White House will host leaders from throughout Africa on December 13-15, 2022, for the U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit. The Vice President stated the Summit demonstrates America’s enduring dedication to its African companions and to bolstering the financial relationship between the U.S. and the African continent.
The announcement was made on the U.S-Africa Business Summit organized by the Corporate Council on Africa in partnership with the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco and held in Marrakech beneath the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco. With multiple thousand African and U.S. private and non-private sector leaders in attendance, Vice President Harris’ announcement of the U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit was nicely acquired and generated pleasure in regards to the future of the U.S.-Africa financial and broader strategic relationship.
The announcement of the December 13-15 U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit “is great news for CCA and our private sector members and other partners. The last Africa Leaders’ Summit was held in 2014 and a second such Summit in 2022 clearly demonstrates Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to Africa” stated Florizelle (Florie) Liser, President and CEO of the Corporate Council on Africa.
The U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit will convey collectively U.S. and African authorities and enterprise leaders, civil society, and diaspora communities who will seemingly talk about a variety of points highlighted by Vice President Harris in her remarks right now, together with public-private partnership, bolstering the U.S.-Africa financial relationship, entry to capital, meals insecurity, and selling sustainable financial progress and growth.
Vice President Harris praised the U.S.-Africa Business Summit, organized by the Corporate Council on Africa, noting that this convening “is very important.” “When everyone is at the table, we are better able to collaborate, coordinate, and identify new opportunities,” the Vice President stated. “So, I wish you a productive Summit in Marrakech. This work will benefit United States-African business ties and diplomatic ties. And most importantly, it will benefit both the people of Africa and the people of the United States.”
Distributed by African Media Agency on behalf of Corporate Council on Africa
ABOUT THE U.S.-AFRICA BUSINESS SUMMIT
The U.S.-Africa Business Summit serves as a platform for African and U.S. personal sector and authorities representatives to have interaction on the highest ranges on a variety of points impacting the U.S.-Africa financial relationship. Summit classes will focus on key sectors together with agribusiness, vitality, well being, infrastructure, safety, commerce facilitation, ICT, inventive industries, and finance Summit members can community with key personal sector and authorities officers, discover new enterprise alternatives, meet potential enterprise companions, and forge new enterprise offers. The Summit additionally serves as a possibility to form and advocate for efficient U.S.-Africa commerce and funding insurance policies.
Over the final 23 years, CCA has hosted greater than 50 U.S. and African Heads of State and over 15,000 members at its Summits.
ABOUT CORPORATE COUNCIL ON AFRICA
Corporate Council on Africa is the main U.S. enterprise affiliation targeted solely on connecting enterprise pursuits between the United States and Africa. CCA uniquely represents a broad cross part of member firms from small and medium dimension companies to multinationals in addition to U.S. and African corporations.
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