2024 Global Africa Forum over subscribed, Online participation portal created for digital audience

The Global Africa Forum (2024), an event organised by the Africa Prosperity Network (APN), in collaboration with the Africa-America Institute (AAI), with the supported by the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat and the Africa Business Council, both of the AU, on the sidelines of the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), has been oversubscribed.

To this end, APN and her partners have instituted a digital platform to afford all persons who have registered but may not have obtained accreditation to participate through the digital portal below; [https://www.facebook.com/AfricaProsperityDialogues//Youtube: @APN_Secretariat

Prince Moses, who is the head of communications at Africa Prosperity Network, indicated that the online portal that has been set up will afford all digital participants to follow fully all components of the event in real time.

“All our guests and attendees who opt to join and follow the event through our digital portal are guaranteed a 360 experience. They will be able to send in questions and also contribute to all discussions via voice and text,” Prince Moses said.

A distinguished line-up of high-profile personalities has been billed to speak at the Global Africa Forum 2024, which takes place in New York on Wednesday, 25 September 2024, at 3 pm prompt.

Speakers at the event will include H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana who spoke at the maiden Global Africa Forum in 2023.

Curated under the theme: “Mobilizing Global African Investments for Africa’s Infrastructural Needs”, the 2nd edition of the Global African Forum aligns with the theme for the 2025 Africa Prosperity Dialogues (APD 2025), which will focus on funding for strategic infrastructural projects that will facilitate the free movement of people, goods and services across Africa’s single market of 55-member states.

Also billed to speak at this high-level New York forum are Dr Adesina Akinwumi, President, Africa Development Bank; Mrs Ahunna Eziakonwa, head of UNDP Africa; H.E. Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister; H.E. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and top contender for the position of Secretary General, the Commonwealth; Wale Tinubu, President, Oando Plc, and Hollywood actor and Pan-Africanist, Mr Boris Kodjoe.

Other speakers, who have also confirmed their participation, are H.E. Hilda Suka-Mafudze, African Union Ambassador to the United States of America; Tom Sheehy, United States Institute for Peace; Danae Pauli, Partnerships for Global Infrastructure and Investment, US State Department; Dr Olivier Kamanzi, President, Africa Global Chamber of Commerce; British Robinson, Coordinator, Prosper Africa; Oliver Alawuba, Group MD, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc.; Mrs Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, Vice President, AfDB; Thierno Habib Hann, CEO, Shelter Afrique, and Kwabena Nyarko, CEO, Hospital Infrastructure Group.

The GAF takes place in the conference hall of Dentons, the world’s largest global law firm. The Forum connects the skills, technology, and financial investments of Global Africans to the development of key sectors, such as energy, health, education, housing, transportation, and digital infrastructure, on the African continent.

Global Africa Forum 2024 aims broadly to encourage global investors to capitalise on Africa’s single market of 1.4 billion people as well as to encourage public-private partnerships for the infrastructure projects needed to connect and integrate African markets, currently valued over US$3.4 trillion.

The Global Africa Forum will also seek to unpack US-Africa economic policies that have the potential to create funding opportunities for large-scale infrastructure projects.

Reporting by Wilberforce Asare

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