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The Mjadala Afrika Leadership Debate 2024 served as a transformative platform where candidates for the Chairperson of the African Union Commission presented their visions for shaping Africa's future. The debate addressed critical issues such as reforming the African Union, advancing Africa’s voice in global governance, accelerating the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), and implementing Agenda 2063. Candidates articulated strategies to tackle youth unemployment, climate change, peace and security, and other pressing challenges, fostering a dialogue that emphasized visionary leadership, accountability, and continental unity.

The Digital with Purpose Global Summit seeks to position innovation and digital solutions as central to the sustainability agenda, with sustainability reciprocally forming the core of the digital agenda. While there is substantial evidence that digital technologies are instrumental in addressing pressing sustainability challenges and empowering global leaders, we currently lack the requisite tools, business models, talent, skills, and collaborations to fully harness the potential of digitalization.  

Did you know that Sub-Saharan Africa is the most unequal region in the world after Latin America and the Caribbean? Beyond income disparities, unequal access to public services and unfair rules of the game in the marketplace conspire to hold people back and limit their potential to participate fully in the economy. In this discussion of the Africa’s Pulse – a biannual snapshot of economic trends in the region, speakers from the World Bank, Oxfam and academia will debate the role that inequality plays in constraining growth and invite viewers to imagine a future where each person is allowed to be as productive and prosperous as they would like to be. 

2024 is a crucial year for democracy; high-profile elections worldwide will shape global leadership. It is now the time to work on shaping a future where democratic values resonate globally. It is now the time to prove that Representation Matters.  Politicians from around the globe convened in Athens, the birthplace of democracy, to attend the WPL Summit 2024 in March, co-hosted by the Government of Greece and under the esteemed patronage of President Katerina Sakellaropoulou. The #WPLSummit2024 served as a critical platform for women politicians to address pressing challenges and seize opportunities facing democracies in the 21st century. More than 200 women leaders, representing 60 countries, convened in the prestigious halls of the Hellenic Parliament and the Acropolis Museum to strategize on addressing global issues while exploring broader systemic changes and individual actions needed to remove barriers for women in politics.

It is time to reframe the narrative on African successes and innovation. 

On December 12, high-level experts and innovators at AfriNEXT—a conference hosted by the Atlantic Council and global development company DAI— showcased the strong business case for investment in African markets, as well as the importance of situating investments and other partnerships squarely in local contexts. Panelists shared perspectives on all that lies ahead for the African continent, including the rising power of its youth, the impact of digitalization, and the threat of climate change.

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and the Government of Guyana welcomed delegates to the second annual AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF2023), from October 30 – 31, 2023 in Georgetown, Guyana under the theme "Creating a Shared Prosperous Future".

After the success of the inaugural forum in Barbados in 2022, ACTIF will again focus on strengthening ties between the private sectors of the two regions to advance trade and investment.

Key focus areas for B2B engagements and panel discussions included:

• Accelerating industrialisation and manufacturing capacity
• Creating conditions to accelerate private sector investment
• Improving infrastructure, financing and trade logistics
• Developing special economic zones and industrial parks
• Promoting trade, tourism and regional integration
• Improving agricultural productivity and agribusiness 

With the support of representatives from Germany, the Netherlands and Côte d'Ivoire, the 2023 GFF Resource Mobilization Campaign will have a pledging event at the World Health Summit in Berlin on October 16, 2023.  The event will showcase accelerated efforts and commitments from global and country partners on advancing the rights and opportunities of women, children and young people. It will further discuss how new models of co-investments and partnerships can help address the scale of development challenges affecting women, girls, and adolescents and addressing the root causes of inequality.

The EurAfrican Forum is an action-oriented platform that aims to foster stronger collaboration between Europe and Africa, better promote a shared green and inclusive growth, uncover new business and social impact investment opportunities & create synergies between both innovation models. Innovators, opinion-formers, game-changers, pioneers, dreamers and mavericks who are shaping the Africa of today gather each year constituting the ‘EurAfrican Community Network’. Under the theme “EU-Africa Alliance: Opportunities for Growth”, the 2023 Forum aims to promote an effective, modern, and inclusive debate supported by ideas, realities and projects in the mutual interest of the twin continents.

US Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Republic of Ghana as the first stop on her three-nation African tour. As part of her visit The President of the Republic of Ghana HE Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo hosted her at a State Banquet Dinner.

The Paradise Foundation, a Chinese conservation charity co-led by Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma, awarded grants to 50 African rangers working to protect wildlife on the continent of Africa.