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Africa: Tempelsman: 'Deals and Dialogue' Make Philadelphia Summit a Success
allAfrica, 9 November 2001
At the third US-Africa Business Summit in Philadelphia last week -- the largest gathering of African leaders on American soil (outside the United Nations), hundreds of business… Read more »
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Central Africa: Kabila tells the West, Promise me Peace, not Money, Hypocrisy and Lip Service"
allAfrica, 1 November 2001
Joseph Kabila was installed as president of the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this year, to replace his father, Laurent Desire Kabila, who was assassinated in January 2001. … Read more »
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Africa: Africa Secretary Kansteiner Stresses Role of Business in Development
allAfrica, 1 November 2001
"Ladies and Gentlemen, The road ahead is long and its gonna be tough. But Africa is on its way." That remark came from the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African… Read more »
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Africa: Investment Needed, Not Welfare, Africans Tell Business Summit
allAfrica, 1 November 2001
"Assistance doesn't mean charity" say participants from Africa attending the Corporate Council for Africa's U.S.- Africa Business Summit. "It means investment." Read more »
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Africa: Address by Africa Secretary to the U.S.-Africa Business Summit
State Department, 1 November 2001
Transcribed text of remarks by Walter H. Kansteiner III, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs to the Corporate Council on Africa's U.S.-Africa Business Summit. The… Read more »
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Africa: Partnerships Are Key, Says US-Africa Business Summit Organiser
allAfrica, 28 October 2001
The U.S.-Africa Business Summit hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) begins Tuesday in Philadelphia. With some 1,500 participants expected, including two Presidents,… Read more »
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Africa: Colin Powell Cancels Speech At 2001 US-Africa Business Summit
CCA, 30 October 2001
Due to the ongoing war against terrorism, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell cancelled his appearance at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Philadelphia, the largest-ever… Read more »
Corporate Council on Africa (Washington, DC)
'Deals & Dialogue' at U.S.-Africa Business Summit 2001
At the third US-Africa Business Summit in Philadelphia November - the largest gathering of African leaders on American soil (outside the United Nations), hundreds of business executives and political big guns from both sides of the Atlantic met to listen to each other and cut deals. "Assistance doesn't mean charity, it means investment" was the mantra of many of the participants in the meeting, and that objective was accomplished, CCA's chairman, Maurice Tempelsman, said in an AllAfrica intrerview.
President Joseph Kabila, who was recently installed as president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, delivered a keynote address and was also interviewed by AllAfrica during the meeting. Another featured guest was Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who received an award for his contribution to the Partnership for African Development (the New African Initiative -- a plan for continental economic and social recovery that he masterminded along with Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade).
The Corporate Council on Africa, founded in 1993, convened the first Summit in 1997 in Chantilly, Virginia. The second was held in Houston in 1999.
