The leaders, including the President of Liberia, George Weah; United States Senator Chris Coons; President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Export-Import Bank, Prof. Benedict Okey Oramah; President, International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, spoke on Monday at the virtual Leadership Panel, which was moderated by the Chairman, UBA Plc, Tony Elumelu
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The African Presidents and global leaders will be joined on the panel by other global leaders, including the President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Export-Import Bank, Prof. Benedict Okey Oramah; President, International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer; and President and Founder, Africa CEO Forum, Amir Ben Yahmed.
At the just concluded Forum organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross, key speakers: Tony O. Elumelu, Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, and Peter Maurer, President of the ICRC, proffered entrepreneurship as the most sustainable solution to accelerating Africa’s transformation.
President Muhammadu Buhari says remnants of Boko Haram in the North-east region of the country are bandits, “and we will continue to treat them as such”.
He added that the organisation had delivered food to hundreds of thousands of displaced people around the region.
Mauer said: “Over the first half of this year, the organisation delivered food to over 500,000 displaced people.
“Its overall budget allocated to the region in 2016 amounts to 136 million Swiss francs