{"id":10767,"date":"2014-05-23T15:09:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T13:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/?p=10767"},"modified":"2014-05-23T15:15:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T13:15:03","slug":"ufm-participates-in-the-new-york-forum-africa-2014-held-in-gabon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/ufm-participates-in-the-new-york-forum-africa-2014-held-in-gabon\/","title":{"rendered":"UfM participates in the New York Forum AFRICA 2014 held in Gabon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Libreville, 23-25 May 2014<\/b>. The UfM Secretary General, Mr. Fathallah Sijilmassi, will participate in the New York Forum AFRICA 2014 held in Libreville, Gabon, over the period from 23-25 May 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/gabon1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10790\" alt=\"gabon\" src=\"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/gabon1.jpg\" width=\"566\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/gabon1.jpg 566w, https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/gabon1-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/gabon1-100x25.jpg 100w, https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/gabon1-65x16.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, the Forum will be held under the high patronage of H.E. President Ali Bongo Ondimba in collaboration with the Government of Gabon, and will focus on transformation: unlocking the competitiveness of the African economy through building value chains around the transformation of the continent\u2019s natural resources, including its human capital.<\/p>\n<p>The business and political leaders that gather in Libreville in May 2014 will engage in intense, collaborative sessions to draw up a road map \u2013 for individual businesses as well as national policy-makers \u2013 as a guide and spur to action. The New York Forum AFRICA is organized around a number of major debates that examine the key economic and business issues for Africa today.\u00a0 This year\u2019s key themes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transforming the continent\u2019s human capital;<\/li>\n<li>Transforming natural resources and energy;<\/li>\n<li>Transforming the land for agriculture;<\/li>\n<li>Transforming investment into industry;<\/li>\n<li>Transforming the African brand;<\/li>\n<li>Transforming citizenship for Africans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr. Sijilmassi will participate in the panel on Transforming investment into industry growth scheduled for 24 May. Co-panelists will include Tewolde Gebremariam, CEO, Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopia); Acha Leke, Director, McKinsey &amp; Company (Nigeria); and Zemedeneh Negatu, Managing Partner Ethiopia, and head of Transaction Advisory Services for Eastern Africa, Ernst &amp; Young (Ethiopia).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business and political leaders gather in Libreville, Gabon, to indulge in a debate on major economic and business issues for Africa today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"priority-area":[],"class_list":["post-10767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-163"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10767"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10793,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10767\/revisions\/10793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10767"},{"taxonomy":"priority-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/priority-area?post=10767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}