{"id":37938,"date":"2018-08-01T10:43:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T10:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-to-host-africa-ceo-forum-2019\/"},"modified":"2018-08-06T09:07:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T09:07:57","slug":"rwanda-to-host-africa-ceo-forum-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-to-host-africa-ceo-forum-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda to host Africa CEO Forum 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking in a press conference yesterday, the Chief Executive Officer of Africa CEO Forum, Amir Ben Yahmed said that they are excited to host the forum in Kigali.<\/p>\n

He said that it is one of the most important business event in Africa and the most important event for private sector.<\/p>\n

The event brings together CEOs from all over Africa, the investment community coming from international countries including, France, German, Japan, China and US as well as different partner institutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to host this event in Kigali because one of the triggering reasons was the signing of the Continental Free Trade Area agreement that clearly indicates that the regional integration ID that has been debated for a long time is now taking shape. We are very happy that it was done in Kigali and for us, it is very good opportunity to bring Eastern Africa into the global conversation that we have managed to create over the last six years,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Yahmed said that one of the main objectives of the forum is to finalize what they have achieved in the past years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we have achieved so far, is to create this global conversation between CEOs from all Africa and increase the impact of Eastern African CEOs into this conversation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The 7th edition according to Yahmed, wanted to be hosted in a country which could embody what the forum focuses on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Africa CEO Forum has always been about modernizing African economies and showing the rest of business community on how Africa could compete on the global competition for business growth. With all the CEOs we have always been eying good governance, leadership, strategic business thinking, ease of doing business and I think Rwanda has incredible records in those areas,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

The Rwanda Development Board (RDB) Chief Executive Officer, Clare Akamanzi said that through the forum, Rwanda expects to expose investment opportunities to business people who will attend the forum.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to attract more investments in Rwanda, both from within and outside the country, and lot of the time we go outside where investors are and describe Rwanda to them,\u2026. A lot of time we describe Rwanda to them and we want them to believe what we tell them. It becomes easier when they come in the country and see all those things for themselves,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

She said that as Rwanda will participate in the programmes of the event with private sector leaders participating on the panels, Rwanda will showcase investment opportunities to targeted investors.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we look at the list of participants who will come, we will do our homework as RDB, we will target those who will be strategic to transformation of our country, we will look at those personalities who will come in our country and who will respond to the needs we have for investment and we will engage them one on one,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The 7th edition of Africa CEO Forum is expected to attract over 1500 participants. The last edition was held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and was attended by President Alassane Ouattara, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo and Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa. <\/p>\n

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The Africa CEO Forum, a world leading high-level international meeting of African CEOs has chosen Rwanda the host country of 7th forum scheduled to take place on March 25th \u2013 26th 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37938"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37938"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}