US-Africa business forum seen as the 'start of a new relationship'

Abstract

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Mr. Carlos Lopes joined African leaders and leading US and African CEOs at the US-Africa Business Forum convened by President Barack Obama in Washington DC on 5-6 August 2014. In his engagement with the private sector on the role of African leaders and CEOs on advancing the transformation agenda and Africa's transformation and industrialization, Mr Lopes said that Africans and Americans are constructing a different relationship as part of the need to change the narrative between African countries and the United States.