ELUMELU: Summit: Progress made, but work remains

Tony O. Elumelu with the 1,000 entrepreneurs representing 51 African countries from the 2015 class of the $100 million Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme during the entrepreneurship boot camp in Ota, Nigeria in July.

Tony O. Elumelu is chairman of Heirs Holdings and founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation

‘Africapitalism’ is the key to creating more economic opportunities in Africa

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Pan-African think tank to promote private sector role in unlocking economic opportunity

Tony O. Elumelu, CON, the chairman of Heirs Holdings and founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation, today inaugurated the Africapitalism Institute at the Shared Value Leadership Summit in New York. The establishment of the Institute was first announced on May 8th at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa, in Abuja, Nigeria.

Africapitalism – the philosophy promoted by Mr. Elumelu – calls on the African...

Tanzania is working on the rating proposals submitted by three credit rating agencies as the country hopes to issue its maiden sovereign bond later this year.

Witness: We have made progress but serious challenges to gender equality ...
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The reports presented during the last meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women in March this year show that overall progress in gender equality in the last 20 years has been unacceptably slow, with stagnation and even regression in some contexts.

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