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<p>Business Leaders, political figures, family and friends hold a memorial service in honor of the late Group CEO of Access Holdings Herbert Wigwe, who passed away in a helicopter crash in the United States along with his wife, son and former Group Chairman of the Nigerian Exchange, Abimbola Ogunbanjo.</p>


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Focus On: Access Holdings marks Wigwe’s Legacy with Excellence Memorial

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<p>The African Growth and Opportunity Act is set to expire in 2025 and preparations for the post- AGOA trade relations need to begin now. Since the Act began in 2000, the trade landscape on the continent has shifted significantly. Charles Robertson, Global Chief Economist at Renaissance Capital  joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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Renaissance Capital: Why the AfCFTA, AGOA won’t work without manufacturing on the continent

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<p>At the US – Africa Business Summit, discussions are currently ongoing on ways to foster sustainable partnerships between government and private sector decision-makers across the United States and Africa. So, what will shape the next phase of the economic partnership between Africa and the United States of America? Enoh Ebong, Acting Director of the U.S Trade and Development Agency joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


USTDA’s Ebong on how to shape the next phase of US – Africa economic partnership

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<p>Negotiations for a free trade deal between Kenya and the United States face fresh hurdles after the expiry of a key legislative tool for getting faster Congress approval, dimming the prospects for its conclusion.</p>


Kenya-US trade deal faces fresh hurdles

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<p>The first-ever Assistant United States Trade Representative for Africa, Rosa Whitaker has called on the U.S to change its policy approach to the continent.</p>


Whitaker Group CEO on rethinking U.S-Africa relations through trade and development

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<p>Kenya and the US have begun discussions on trade and investment opportunities between the two countries and the massive potential of the US-Kenya Free Trade Agreement signed in 2020 during the Trump Presidency.</p>


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Kenya, US seek to strengthen trade relations

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<p>Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari sent a congratulatory message to President Joe Biden on his inauguration as the 46th President of the United States. With diplomatic relations between both countries dating back to Nigeria’s Independence. CNBC Africa’s Kenneth Igbomor explores how the incoming Biden administration will impact relations between Nigeria and the United States with Matthias Chika Mordi, Adjunct Professor at SAIS John Hopkins.</p>


What the Biden administration means for Nigeria-US relations

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<p>The United States formally revoked Sudan&#8217;s status as a state sponsor of terrorism, removing the biggest barrier to the country&#8217;s access to international lending institutions and economic development.</p>


A new dawn for Sudan? US removes Khartoum from terror sponsor list

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<p>The number of companies listed on the world’s stock markets has collapsed, over the past two decades. In South Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom the number has been reduced by half. Some have raised their concerns, over what they call a “delisting crisis”. Yet, in many Asian economies, the number of listed companies has doubled. CNBC Africa spoke to Kondi Nkosi, Country Head for South Africa at Schroders to unpack the reasons behind these differences.</p>


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<p>The United States has set a raft of conditions in the on-going Free Trade Agreement negotiations with Kenya. These conditions include Kenya openly supporting Israel&#8217;s political and commercial interests. Meanwhile, lobby groups in Nairobi have raised a petition opposing the negotiations, unless there is clarity on the issue of tax exemptions. CNBC Africa spoke with Leonard Wanyama, Coordinator of the East Africa Tax &#038; Governance Network for more.</p>


Inside the on-going US-Kenya FTA negotiations

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<p>U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo approved the Trump administration plans to withdraw some foreign aid to Ethiopia as the United States mediates tension over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a decision that could escalate tensions between Washington and Addis Ababa. Economic Analyst, Samuel Getachew joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


US cuts foreign aid to Ethiopia over disputes on Nile dam project

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<p>The United States is counting down the days of a very important presidential election taking place on the 3rd of November. What will this election mean for trade relations with South Africa and what are the investment opportunities for U.S companies in South Africa. Joining CNBC Africa for more is Lana Marks, United States Ambassador to South Africa.</p>


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Ambassador Lana Marks on trade, upcoming presidential elections & what attracts U.S investors to SA

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<p>Deteriorating relations between the U.S and China despite the Covid-19 pandemic has led to tit-for-tat consulate closures as China orders the shutdown of the U.S consulate in Chengdu.</p>


Assessing the global implications of rising U.S-China tensions


<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Corporate America is downsizing its real estate footprint as companies allow more employees to work from home, a growing threat to the bottom line of owners of traditional office buildings and a sign that companies are looking for ways to cut costs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.</p>



<p>A Reuters analysis of quarterly earnings calls over the past week revealed more than 25 large companies plan to reduce their office space in the year ahead, a move designed to reduce the second-largest expense after payrolls at corporations.</p>



<p>Energy company Halliburton Co said it intends to close more than 100 facilities. Financial services company State Street Corp said it is going to nearly double the workers assigned to one office before adding additional space, based on the assumption that a significant portion of its workforce will continue to work from home even after a vaccine for COVID-19 emerges. Bedding company Sleep Number Corp plans to slow the growth of its total square footage as more consumers shop online.</p>



<p>“You should expect and hold us to a much lower footprint really starting quite soon,” State Street Corp’s CEO, Ronald Philip O’Hanley, said on the company’s July 17 earnings call.</p>



<p>Regions Financial Corp, meanwhile, told analysts: “Whether through increased use of hoteling, work from home or modified scheduling, we are confident overall office square footage will continue to decline,” as some workers share desks or stop coming into the building.</p>



<p>Analysts say the plans to cut back on real estate are likely the first wave of cost-cutting measures to hit office workers as companies try to maintain margins going into what may be a long recession. So far, the majority of the 14.7 million U.S. jobs lost during the pandemic have been in hard-hit areas such as restaurants, travel and retailers.</p>



<p>Reductions in office spending could likely be followed by layoffs and investments in technology that should help improve productivity with a reduced workforce, said Bill McMahon, chief investment officer of active equity strategies at Charles Schwab.</p>



<p>“Clearly, we’re seeing businesses starting to rationalize their physical plants and at some point they will turn to labor too,” he said.</p>



<p>Morgan Stanley in June forecast that work-from-home policies will increase vacancy rates in office buildings. Vacancy rates in New York will reach 10%-12% in the next two to five years from 8.7% now, while San Francisco will reach 7-9% from 5.8%, it predicted.</p>



<p>So far, concerns about declining office space use have not hurt commercial mortgaged-backed securities, with the iShares CMBS ETF up 4.4% for the year to date.</p>



<p>While companies tend to cut back on their real estate needs during typical recessions, the last four months of economic lockdown have shown that many workers can remain productive at home, said Danny Ismail, an analyst at independent research firm Green Street Advisors. As a result, the cutbacks that companies are making are more likely to be permanent, he said.</p>



<p>“Every company just went through a mass work-from-home experience and for the majority it was mostly positive,” he said.</p>



<p>Green Street Advisors expects that office demand will be reduced by up to 15% as a result of work from home policies once the coronavirus pandemic is contained.</p>



<p>That reduction in necessary space will most likely hurt real estate investment firms with large exposures in cities such as San Francisco and New York as workers are expected to be given more freedom by employers to live in lower-cost areas away from the coasts, Ismail said.</p>



<p>“Even before COVID-19, you’d seen a migration from majority coastal cities along the Northeast and West Coast to Sun Belt markets,” he said, referring to the region stretching from Florida to Southern California, collectively known as the Sun Belt. “We think that will accelerate in the future as the cost of living, quality of life and ability to keep your job is much better in a post-COVID-19 world than before.”</p>


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Who needs an office? US companies cut back


<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; During a blue-sky moment in 2018 near the end of a decade-long economic expansion, it was the United States that helped pull the world along as the extra cash from tax cuts and government spending flowed through domestic and global markets.</p>





<p>But if it was U.S. policy that pushed the world higher then, it is U.S. policy that threatens to pull the world under now as the country’s troubled response to the coronavirus pandemic emerges as a chief risk to any sustained global recovery.</p>



<p>Officials from Mexico to Japan are already on edge. Exports have taken a hit in Germany, and Canada looks south warily knowing that any further hit to U.S. growth will undoubtedly spill over.</p>



<p>“Globally there will be difficult months and years ahead and it is of particular concern that the number of COVID-19 cases is still rising,” the International Monetary Fund said in a review of the U.S. economy that cited “social unrest” due to rising poverty as one of the risks to economic growth.</p>



<p>“The risk ahead is that a large share of the U.S. population will have to contend with an important deterioration of living standards and significant economic hardship for several years. This, in turn, can further weaken demand and exacerbate longer-term headwinds to growth.”</p>



<p>It was a clinical description of a grim set of facts: After the U.S. government committed roughly $3 trillion to support the economy through a round of restrictions on activity imposed to curb the virus in April and May, the disease is surging in the United States to record levels just as those support programs are due to expire. More than 3.6 million people have been infected and 140,000 killed. Daily growth in cases has tripled to more than 70,000 since mid-May, and the 7-day moving average of deaths, after falling steadily from April to July, has turned higher.</p>



<p>Meanwhile the country has fractured over issues like mask-wearing that in other parts of the world were adopted readily as a matter of common courtesy. With some key states like Texas and California now reimposing restrictions, analysts have already noted a possible plateau to the U.S. recovery with the country still 13.3 million jobs shy of the number in February.FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed coronavirus model is seen in front of a U.S. flag on display in this illustration taken March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo</p>



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<p>For other major economic powers, that is a weight added to their own struggles with the virus and the economic fallout.</p>



<p>The U.S. economy accounts for about a quarter of world gross domestic product. Though much of that is service-related, and much of the direct impact of the virus is tied up in industries like restaurants with weak links to the global economy, the connections are still there. A lost job leads to lower consumer spending leads to fewer imports; weak business conditions lead to less investment in the equipment or supplies that are often produced elsewhere.</p>



<p>Year-to-date U.S. imports through May are down more than 13%, or roughly $176 billion.</p>



<p>In Germany, whose measures to contain the pandemic are considered to have been among the most effective, exports to the United States plunged 36% year-over-year in May. Analysts see little prospect for improvement, with year-to-date U.S. auto sales through June down nearly 24% from a year earlier.</p>



<p>“That is really a disappointment,” said Gabriel Felbermayr, president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, in a recent interview with radio network Deutschlandfunk. The spike in U.S. infections, he said, could not have been expected.</p>



<p>In Japan, the speed of the recovery is seen tied directly to U.S. success in stemming the virus.</p>



<p>“Japan’s recovery will be really delayed if the spreading of the coronavirus in the United States isn’t stopped and U.S.-bound exports from various Asian countries don’t grow,” said Hideo Kumano, a former Bank of Japan official who is now chief economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute.</p>



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<p>The IMF projected U.S. GDP will shrink this year by 6.6%, in line with many analysts’ projections.</p>



<p>The Bank of Canada is more pessimistic, forecasting U.S. GDP to fall 8.1% on the year. That has already been lowered once as the health situation decayed.Slideshow&nbsp;(2 Images)</p>



<p>A further leg down would hit Canada directly, with perhaps three-fourths of the country’s exports headed over the U.S. border.</p>



<p>“We did take down our U.S. projection &#8230; I would underline that there’s a lot of uncertainty, and the principle source of the uncertainty is the evolution of the coronavirus itself,” said BOC governor Tiff Macklem.</p>



<p>At the southern border, Mexico is also posting record daily numbers of new cases, but President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has at times deflected criticism of his government’s efforts by pointing to the U.S. numbers.</p>



<p>Lopez Obrador undertook a risky visit with President Donald Trump earlier in July, couching his journey to Washington as a matter of economic necessity as Mexico attempts to revive an economy that could shrink by 10% or more this year, according to forecasts.</p>



<p>The Mexican president hopes the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal, which took effect on July 1, will spur business and investment, but pessimism about the outlook has been growing.</p>



<p>“To the point that people in the U.S. are losing jobs or incomes it is a downward weight &#8230; and it will have ramifications on the ability to consume globally,” said Elizabeth Crofoot, senior economist at the Conference Board, which documented a record drop in global consumer confidence in a recent survey.</p>



<p>“We take one step forward and two steps back.”</p>


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<p>(Reuters) &#8211; China’s embassy in Myanmar on Sunday accused the United States of “outrageously smearing” the country and driving a wedge with its Southeast Asian neighbors over the contested South China Sea and Hong Kong, as tensions mount between the superpowers.</p>



<p>Responding to U.S. claims Beijing was undermining the sovereignty of its neighbors, the Chinese embassy said U.S. agencies abroad were doing “disgusting things” to contain China and had showed a “selfish, hypocritical, contemptible, and ugly face”.</p>



<p>The United States last week hardened its position on the South China Sea, saying it would back countries in the region that challenge Beijing’s claim to about 90% of the strategic waterway.</p>



<p>In a statement on Saturday, the U.S. embassy in Yangon called China’s actions in the South China Sea and Hong Kong, where Beijing has imposed tough new national security laws, part of a “larger pattern to undermine the sovereignty of its neighbors”.</p>



<p>The U.S. statement drew parallels between China’s actions in the South China Sea and Hong Kong with large-scale Chinese investments projects in Myanmar that the United States warned could become debt-traps, along with trafficking of women from Myanmar to China as brides, and the inflow of drugs from China into Myanmar.</p>



<p>“This is how modern sovereignty is often lost &#8211; not through dramatic, overt action,&nbsp;but through a cascade of smaller ones that lead to its slow erosion over time,” the U.S. embassy said.</p>



<p>In its rebuke, China said the statement showed a “sour grapes” attitude by the United States towards “flourishing China-Myanmar relations” and was “another farce on a global tour by the U.S. authorities to shift the attention on domestic problems and seek selfish political gains”.</p>



<p>“The U.S. should first look in the mirror to see whether it still looks like a major country now,” it said.</p>



<p>The Chinese embassy in Yangon did not answer phone calls seeking further comment. The U.S. embassy was not immediately available for comment.</p>



<p>Myanmar has increasingly become a battleground for influence between the two countries since relations between the government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and the West became strained over its treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority.</p>



<p>Author and historian Thant Myint-U told Reuters in an email although the country was of negligible economic value to the rivals, its strategic importance as a bridge between mainland China and the Bay of Bengal was hard to ignore.</p>



<p>“Myanmar’s instincts since independence in 1948 are to try to be friends with everyone, but it’s not clear that’s going to remain possible, in this coming period of increasingly febrile superpower rivalry,” he said.</p>



<p>“The&nbsp;sheer weight of China’s giant industrial revolution next door is already transforming Myanmar; if multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects are added to the mix, the border between the two countries will become increasingly difficult to see,” he said.</p>



<p>“It’s important to remember that Myanmar was one of the few countries in the world where the last Cold War led to proxy armed fighting which in turn led to military dictatorship and decades of self-imposed isolation.”</p>


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<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; John Lewis, who died on Friday at age 80, was a hero of the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1960s who endured beatings by white police and mobs and played an outsized role in American politics for 60 years.</p>



<p>Lewis, an Alabama sharecropper’s son elected in 1986 as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia, died after a battle with pancreatic cancer.</p>



<p>A protege of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., Lewis led sit-ins to integrate all-white lunch counters, was one of the original “Freedom Riders” who integrated buses, and suffered a skull fracture while demonstrating for Black voting rights in a savage beating by a nightstick-wielding white Alabama state trooper during an incident now called “Bloody Sunday.”</p>



<p>Lewis was just 18 when he first met King and went on to play a vital role in the civil rights movement that strove for equality for Blacks in an America grappling with racial bigotry and segregation, particularly in the South.</p>



<p>As a congressman, Lewis tangled with President Donald Trump starting even before Trump took office. Lewis in January 2017 said he did not view Trump as a “legitimate” president because of Russian meddling in the 2016 election to boost his candidacy. Trump drew criticism even from fellow Republicans when he called Lewis “all talk” and “no action.”</p>



<p>Lewis was present at many of the civil rights movement’s seminal moments, and was the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, hoping for a land where Blacks “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”</p>



<p>Lewis, the last surviving speaker at that speech, maintained the fight for civil rights until the end of his life. He made his last public appearance in June, as protests for racial justice swept the United States and the world.</p>



<p>Using a cane, he walked with Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser on a street by the White House that Bowser had just renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza, which had just been dedicated with a large yellow mural &#8211; large enough to be seen from space &#8211; reading “Black Lives Matter.”</p>



<p>Amid a national movement to abolish Confederate monuments and symbols, calls have grown rename the bridge in Selma, Alabama, where Lewis was brutally beaten during a 1965 voting rights march, for Lewis. It is named for Edmund Pettus, who fought in the Confederate Army and robbed African-Americans of their right to vote after Reconstruction.</p>



<p>Long before the March on Washington, Lewis helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which became a prominent civil rights group, and served as its president for three years.</p>



<p>He proved he was willing to risk his life for the cause of civil rights and non-violent protest and organized the first lunch-counter sit-ins demanding service for Blacks at whites-only eateries.</p>



<p>In 1960, at a whites-only diner in Nashville, Tennessee, a white waitress dumped cleaning powder down his back and water on his food. He was beaten by whites in South Carolina and Alabama during 1961 anti-segregation bus tours called Freedom Rides. And he suffered further injuries during “Bloody Sunday” in 1965 in Selma.</p>



<p>“I thought I was going to die a few times,” he said in a 2004 interview, mentioning Selma and a 1961 mob beating at a bus station in Montgomery, Alabama. “I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of non-violence.”</p>



<p>Barack Obama, the first Black U.S. president, awarded Lewis the presidential medal of freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, in 2011.</p>



<p>“Generations from now, when parents teach their children what is meant by courage, the story of John Lewis will come to mind &#8211; an American who knew that change could not wait for some other person or some other time, whose life is a lesson in the fierce urgency of now,” Obama said a White House ceremony.</p>



<p>Lewis was born on Feb. 21, 1940, in Troy, Alabama, when Blacks faced segregation in all public facilities and were effectively barred from voting in the U.S. South &#8211; where Black slavery ended only due to the 1861-1865 Civil War &#8211; thanks to the notorious “Jim Crow” laws.</p>



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<p>Lewis plunged into the civil rights movement as a student at Fisk University in Nashville, where he organized the sit-ins at segregated lunch counters.</p>



<p>“The Nashville sit-ins became the first mass arrest in the sit-in movement, and I was taken to jail,” Lewis said.</p>



<p>“I’ll tell you, I felt so liberated. I felt so free. I felt like I had crossed over. I think I said to myself, ‘What else can you do to me? You beat me. You harassed me. Now you have placed me under arrest. You put us in jail. What’s left? You can kill us?’”</p>



<p>The “Bloody Sunday” attack took place when segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace directed police to use night sticks and tear gas to stop the peaceful march for voting rights led by Lewis and others.</p>



<p>As hundreds of Black protesters crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, state troopers, many on horseback, waded into the crowd swinging billy clubs. Lewis was beaten so badly that his scars were visible decades later when he served in Congress.</p>



<p>The horrific nature of the event inspired action in Washington. President Lyndon Johnson days later demanded that Congress approve legislation removing barriers to Black voting. Lawmakers then passed the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.</p>



<p>In a moving postscript to his protest years, Elwin Wilson, a white man who assaulted Lewis at a bus station in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in 1961, traveled to Washington in 2009 to apologize tearfully to Lewis, who forgave him.</p>



<p>“That’s what the movement was always about &#8211; to have the capacity to forgive and move toward reconciliation,” Lewis told the New York Times in 2013 after Wilson died at age 76.</p>



<p>After leaving SNCC in 1966, Lewis worked for community organizations. He later was Democratic President Jimmy Carter’s choice to head the federal volunteer program ACTION and he was elected to the Atlanta City Council in 1981.</p>



<p>Lewis lost his first run for the House in 1977 to Democrat Wyche Fowler in the campaign to replace Andrew Young, the first Black elected to Congress from Georgia in modern times. Carter had picked Young to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.</p>



<p>When Fowler headed to the Senate, Lewis defeated another civil rights figure, Julian Bond, in 1986 for the House seat representing the congressional district encompassing Atlanta.</p>



<p>In the House, he amassed a liberal voting record and was a member of the House Democratic leadership team.</p>



<p>Lewis began the 2008 campaign supporting Hillary Clinton as she faced Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. After Obama won Georgia’s Democratic primary, Lewis switched allegiance in a key moment of the campaign.</p>



<p>As a congressman in June 2016, Lewis used the non-violent protest tactics he learned from King to help organize a 24-hour sit-in on the House floor to push for gun control legislation following a shooting that killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The rare protest virtually shut down the chamber.</p>



<p>Lewis had one son with his wife Lillian, who died in 2012.</p>


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Kenya-US trade deal faces fresh hurdles

Whitaker Group CEO on rethinking U.S-Africa relations through trade and development

Kenya, US seek to strengthen trade relations

What the Biden administration means for Nigeria-US relations

A new dawn for Sudan? US removes Khartoum from terror sponsor list

Is SA going through a delisting crisis?

Inside the on-going US-Kenya FTA negotiations

US cuts foreign aid to Ethiopia over disputes on Nile dam project

Ambassador Lana Marks on trade, upcoming presidential elections & what attracts U.S investors to SA

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Who needs an office? US companies cut back

When the U.S. sneezes, the world catches a cold. What happens when it has severe COVID-19?

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Focus On: Access Holdings marks Wigwe’s Legacy with Excellence Memorial

Renaissance Capital: Why the AfCFTA, AGOA won’t work without manufacturing on the continent

USTDA’s Ebong on how to shape the next phase of US – Africa economic partnership

Kenya-US trade deal faces fresh hurdles

Whitaker Group CEO on rethinking U.S-Africa relations through trade and development

Kenya, US seek to strengthen trade relations

What the Biden administration means for Nigeria-US relations

A new dawn for Sudan? US removes Khartoum from terror sponsor list

Is SA going through a delisting crisis?

Inside the on-going US-Kenya FTA negotiations

US cuts foreign aid to Ethiopia over disputes on Nile dam project

Ambassador Lana Marks on trade, upcoming presidential elections & what attracts U.S investors to SA

Assessing the global implications of rising U.S-China tensions

Who needs an office? US companies cut back

When the U.S. sneezes, the world catches a cold. What happens when it has severe COVID-19?

‘Ugly face’: U.S. and China trade barbs in Myanmar as South China Sea rift deepens

John Lewis, U.S. congressman and sharecropper’s son, was civil rights hero

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