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A Network of African Business Influencers, Minted in Atlanta

The Mandela Washington Fellows who visited Atlanta for six weeks in June and July were emphatically positive about the leadership program that brought them across the Atlantic. The U.S. State Department’s Young African Leaders Initiative touched down in the city for the sixth straight year, once again bringing cohorts of 25 leaders each to three […]

Scholarship Applications for Liberian Students Due July 10

Students of Liberian descent are encouraged to apply by July 10 for five scholarships of between $500 and $1,000 in fields ranging from STEM to athletics. The scholarships are awarded by the University Consortium for Liberia, a group formed in 2015 in large part thanks to the West African nation’s honorary consulate in Atlanta. The awards are […]

Three Georgia Universities Welcome 75 Young African Leaders Focused on Civic Engagement, Entrepreneurship

Georgia is the only state around the country hosting participants in all three of the Young African Leaders Initiative’s professional development tracks: public and civic leadership, as well as entrepreneurship. The U.S. State Department program, launched under the Obama administration in 2010, welcomes top entrepreneurs, activists and business owners from throughout the continent for a […]

UPS Executive Appointed to President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa

Laura Lane, who is president of Global Affairs at UPS and has had widespread international experience on behalf of private industry as well as government, has been appointed to the U.S. Commerce Department’s President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa. Mrs. Lane is to serve on the council for the 2019-2021 term along with […]

Female Empowerment Highlight of African Art Exhibit

Atlantans had the opportunity from Jan. 18-April 21 to see a remarkable exhibition of African art at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, which featured works focused on the traditional lives of women and girls. The artworks were selected from hundreds of pieces belonging to the Mehta Collection of retired professor of international banking and […]

Coca-Cola, AGCO Execs Comprise Atlanta Presence at U.S.-Africa Summit

Executives from Coca-Cola Co. and AGCO Corp. have speaking roles at this week’s U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Moputo, Mozambique, comprising the limited Atlanta corporate presence at the three-day summit. Both companies are heavy investors in Africa, with Coca-Cola serving 54 countries via franchised bottling systems and unrivaled local distribution networks, while AGCO, the Duluth-based tractor and […]

Atlanta’s Renewvia Lands Spot at Global Entrepreneurship Summit

Renewvia, an Atlanta-based solar provider, landed a spot at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in The Hague this week thanks to its deployment of microgrid systems in East Africa. The smaller solar systems now in use in Kenyan fishing villages are monetized through a prepaid mobile payments platform the company developed in-house. The goal is to […]

Belgium

Ambassador: Liberia Can Be Georgia’s ‘Springboard’ to the African Continent

Liberia’s determined efforts to solidify its ties with Georgia were energized by the mid-May visit of its ambassador to the U.S. who encouraged the state to play a dominant role in establishing a cargo hub for the African continent. George S. W. Patten Sr., a veteran Liberian diplomat who assumed his position in January, met […]

Asia
Europe

CARE’s Michelle Nunn: Trade Polarization Threatens Progress on Tackling Global Issues

Rising trade tensions are threatening to undermine collaboration needed to tackle big problems like poverty on a global scale, CARE CEO Michelle Nunn said at the World Trade Day conference in Atlanta May 3. “In many ways we are seeing threats of an inward-looking and nationalistic sensibility, an insularity that threatens some of our capacity […]

University Startup’s Medical Device to Combat Elephantiasis

It’s often said that technology will enable science to eliminate some of the world’s most debilitating diseases. Big data and supercomputing can provide useful information to those on the front lines of research seeking to eliminate malaria, tuberculosis, polio and HIV around the world. But sometimes it’s not always that complicated and an internet search […]

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