Gala at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Luanda.
Corporate Council on Africa (Washington, DC)
#USAfricaBizSummit2025 - Dialogue, Engagement, Announcements
At the 2025 U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Luanda, we reflect on a week of impactful dialogue, high-level engagements, and landmark announcements that are shaping the future of U.S.-Africa economic partnerships. The 2025 Summit marked a historic milestone in both scale and influence, with a record number of Heads of State and Government leaders in attendance. Twelve leaders, including Presidents and Prime Ministers, joined the high-level convening.
Beyond this unprecedented leadership turnout, the Summit welcomed continental representation from across Africa featuring Ministers, senior U.S. government officials, U.S. - African private sector executives and entrepreneurs. Included were influential voices from the African Union Commission, the African Development Bank, AUDA-NEPAD, and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
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Africa: #USAfricaBizSummit2025 - Impactful Dialogue, High-level Engagements, Landmark Announcements
Corporate Council on Africa, 30 June 2025
At the 2025 U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Luanda, we reflect on a week of impactful dialogue, high-level engagements, and landmark announcements that are shaping the future of… Read more »
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30 June 2025
Voices from the #USAfricaBizSummit2025
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- Corporate Council on Africa
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In this special feature, we hear from a cross-section of leaders shaping the future of U.S.-Africa economic engagement--heads of state, senior officials, and private sector trailblazers.
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Featuring:
H.E. Duma Boko, President of the Republic of Botswana
Hon. Thomas Hardy, Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)
Nangula Uaandja, CEO, Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Agency
João Germano E Silva, Head of Business Development, Mitrelli
“It is time to replace the logic of aid with the logic of ambition and private investment.” - President João Lourenço of Angola addressing the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Luanda.
'Supercharging Public Private Philanthropic Partnerships' - panelists during the 2025 U.S.- Africa Business Summit in Luanda.
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24 June 2025
Day 1 Highlights #USAfricaBizSummitSummit2025
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- Corporate Council on Africa
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Catch our Day 1 highlights and revisit the opening conversations that set the tone for the week.
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Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, speaking with Akaego Okoye, founder of African Business Stories (ABS), during an ABS Roundtable on the sidelines of the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Luanda.
Florizelle Liser, President & CEO of CCA, surveying one of the largest solar plants in Southern Africa - Sun Africa’s 188 MW solar energy project - during the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Luanda, along with Ambassador Troy Fitrell, Senior Bureau Official, Bureau of African Affairs.
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Some 2700 participants gathered in Luanda for the 17th U.S.-Africa Business Summit organized by the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) and hosted this year by the Government of Angola.
Participants included heads of state and government from 12 countries including Botswana, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Madagascar, Mauritania, Namibia, and Sao Tome and Principe, along with President Joao Lourenco from the Summit
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The 2025 U.S.-Africa Business Summit yielded announcements of $2.5 billion in planned projects in Angola, the Democractic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Sierre Leone and Rwanda, the State Department said in a release issued after the gathering in Luanda ended on June 25th. "The U.S. objective at the Summit was to secure key deals and commitments for U.S. companies and establish the conditions to
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