US-AFRICA SUMMIT: US and African leaders turn to business at summit

WASHINGTON—Africa’s top artists, including Nigeria’s Femi Kuti and D’Banj, South Africa’s Judith Sephuma and Congo DRC’s Fally Ipupa will be traveling with Manchester City soccer star Yaya Toure to Washington D.C. 4-7 August with The ONE Campaign to play an active role in shaping the conversation about the US-Africa relationship at the historic US-Africa Leaders Summit.The full list of artists are: A.Y. (Tanzania), Buffalo Souljah (Zimbabwe), D’Banj (Nigeria), Fally Ipupa (DRC), Femi Kuti...

Delegates are gathering in Washington DC for the largest-ever summit of African leaders in the US.

Mr. Mohammed Dewji, Group Chief Executive Officer, Mohammed Enterprises Tanzania (MeTL Group).

For the fifth consecutive year, The Norwegian-African Business Association (NABA) will host the largest Nordic-African business summit. 500 Scandinavian and African experis from finance, renewable energy, agriculture, ITC, fisheries, oil and gas sectors will gather at RaddisonBLU Scandinavian Hotel in Oslo on Thursday, 29 October 2015 to discuss how Nordic capabilities can be linked with African...

President Uhuru Kenyatta is among leaders said to be invited to the first US-Africa Leaders’ Summit in Washington.

 

African citizens join the continent’s top musicians, hundreds of CSOs, and ONE.org to ask leaders to invest more and better in agriculture.

As the 23rd African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government Summit gets underway in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, ONE.org’s Do Agric petition (http://www.one.org/doagric) — which calls on African leaders to recommit to spending at least 10% of national budgets on effective agriculture investments — has gathered more than 2 million signatures of support...

>Conflict and humanitarian crises rather than growing economies and development top the agenda for African leaders this week, as they meet for a summit of the continental bloc.

EAST African Community Secretariat, Kampala, Uganda, 1st September, 2015: 
The President of the Republic of Uganda, H.E. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said that Africa and many developing countries face the challenge of high and growing youth unemployment, which if not addressed can potentially be a source of instability as has been the case in North Africa.
The President, who was this afternoon officiating at the official opening of the 1st East African Manufacturing Business Summit...

>Last week’s US-Africa Leader’s Summit, which was organised and hosted by the US, ended with new hopes for Africa. This was after US President Barack Obama promised that all that his country wanted was to become an ‘equal’ partner in Africa’s growing success. President Obama -- while pledging $300 million in assistance per year to expand the reach of Power Africa in pursuit of a new, aggregate goal of 30,000MW -- told the 50 heads of state that America was...