Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Ambassador Sanders Present Analysis on VOA:South Sudan Security,Leadership

Ambassador Sanders on Voice of America's Africa54 news program
VOA's Esther Githui Ewart, anchor for its key news show Africa54, discusses the political instability in South Sudan with Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders, former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and Congo, and current CEO of the FEEEDS Advocacy Initiative, who servered as Deputy Political Chief at the U.S. Embassy in Sudan when it was one country, but has worked on Sudan issues over the life of her career. The current South Sudan crisis has prompted the  disappearance of Vice President Riek Machar, leaving South Sudanese President Salva Kiir firing him and swearing-in a new Vice-President Taban Deng Gai on July 26, 2016. Sanders presented the following analysis on the issues. Click here to see show: Political Instability in South Sudan: https://youtu.be/NUB66CzRTsI
 
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Ambassador Sanders Present Analysis on VOA:South Sudan Security,Leadership

Ambassador Sanders on Voice of America's Africa54 news program
VOA's Esther Githui Ewart, anchor for its key news show Africa54, discusses the political instability in South Sudan with Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders, former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and Congo, and current CEO of the FEEEDS Advocacy Initiative, who servered as Deputy Political Chief at the U.S. Embassy in Sudan when it was one country, but has worked on Sudan issues over the life of her career. The current South Sudan crisis has prompted the  disappearance of Vice President Riek Machar, leaving South Sudanese President Salva Kiir firing him and swearing-in a new Vice-President Taban Deng Gai on July 26, 2016. Sanders presented the following analysis on the issues. Click here to see show: Political Instability in South Sudan: https://youtu.be/NUB66CzRTsI
 
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

FEEEDS-Gallup 3rd Annual Event- Round-Robbin Media Clips of Africa SME Program


Allafrica.com: Allafrica.com:  http://allafrica.com/stories/201607181038.html; Ambassador's article with Gallup's Africa Director on Key Africa Development Data: http://allafrica.com/stories/201607181040.html;

Diplomatic Courier Newspaper: http://www.diplomaticourier.com/gallup-feeeds-african-diaspora-business-forum/

Television Continental: https://youtu.be/2hldUBLdPzc

Ambassador Sanders joins Gallup for FEEEDS-Gallup 3rd Annual Event on Africa in Washington, D.C.


Gallup World Poll and FEEEDS Advocacy Initiative will host a curtain raiser July 14, 2016, in Washington, D.C. for President Obama's upcoming second U.S.-Africa Business Forum, which will be held in New York on September 21.

This third annual U.S.-Africa event sponsored by Gallup and FEEEDS highlights the centrality of Africa Diaspora Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) in job creation and development of the Continent's middle class.

The forum, which is supported by media partner allAfrica.com and leading Africa energy and pharmaceutical firm GB Group Global, will take place from 1:30-4:30 pm at Gallup World Headquarters, 901 F Street NW in Washington, DC 20004.

The event features presentations by President Obama’s Special Assistant and Senior Director for African Affairs Catherine E. Byrne, as well as senior officials from the Department of Commerce, the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, members of the President's Doing Business in Africa Council, and the African Center for Strategic Studies.

Gallup Managing Partner Jon Clifton said the upcoming event "provides an opportunity for Gallup to share key polling data about the positive things happening today on the African Continent, from people being more upbeat about election processes to millennials in Africa having confidence to start their own SME business in their country of origin despite economic challenges."

Dr. Gloria Herndon, president of GB Group Global, whose international firm does significant business on the Continent in the energy and pharmaceutical sectors and is launching a ground breaking HIV drug with its operation in Nigeria, says “SME’s are crucial to the success of our initiatives given the focus on local content and capacity building.”

"For AllAfrica Global Media, which produces the leading online resource for news and information from Africa, this event provides an important ‘scene setter’ for the Obama business forum in New York, which is expected to draw broad participation from both Fortune 500 firms and American and African Small and Medium Enterprises,” said AllAfrica CEO Reed Kramer.

Ambassador Robin Sanders, CEO of the FEEEDs Advocacy Initiative and chief organizer of the event, underscored the importance of “bringing together both African and African-American SME businesses as one diaspora interested in doing business on the Continent."

Amb. Sanders Discuss SouthSudan Crisis on Al Jazeera English and Nigeria's TVC-See Clips

Ambassador Robin Sanders, who served as a diplomat in Sudan when it was one Sudan, toward the end of the long civil war and work on US-Sudan policy issues as special assistant in the Africa Bureau at the State Department, and as a Director for Africa at the National Security Council at the White House discusses the current South Sudan Crisis see clips on: Aljazeera English:
 https://fc.aljazeera.net/workflow/jsp/downloadFiles.jsp; and  Nigeria's Television Continental (TVC): https://youtu.be/WITBh-cLkXw

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

FEEEDS-GALLUP Africa SME Forum Photo Gallery

Event hosts were FEEEDS Advocacy Initiative  and Gallup, with event partners Allafrica.com and GB Group Global and attend by some 200 invitees from the Africa Diaspora SME business community, U.S. Government officials, with President Obama's Special

Allafrica.com Reports on the FEEEDS-Gallup Africa SME Forum

See Allafrica.com for full story: http://allafrica.com/stories/201607181038.html



Global Partners Discuss Key Data and Future of U.S.-Africa's SMEs
FEEEDS-Gallup-Allafrica.com Africa Diaspora SME Forum.
Panel Members (l-r) Nicholas Bassey, USAID Director Frontier Partnership,
 Ngozi Bell, Region III Advocate, U.S. SBA, & Magali Rheault,
Gallup Regional Director. Ambassador Sanders served
as Mistress of Ceremonies
Ahead of President Obama's second U.S.-Africa Business Forum planned for New York on September 21, 2016, the FEEEDS Initiative —Food Security, Education, Environment-Energy, Economics, Democracy-Development and Self-help— in partnership with GALLUP, hosted the third annual forum on Africa in Washington, D.C. to discuss the importance and impact of Africa Diaspora small and medium size Enterprises (SMES) in the development of the Continent. Managing Partner, Gallup, Jon Clifton, introduced the featured special guest, Catherine Byrne, President Obama's Special Assistant and Senior Director for African Affairs at the White House.
 
Other speakers included Alicia Robinson-Morgan, Deputy Director of the Africa Office at the U.S. Department of Commerce; Leila Ndiaye, Africa Policy Director, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Rahama Wright, member President's Doing Business in Africa Council (PAC-DBIA) & CEO-Shea Yeleen, with Allafrica.com CEO, Reed Kramer, as moderator.
The hosts for the Africa Diaspora SME Business Forum were Jon Clifton, Managing Partner, GALLUP, and Ambassador Robin Sanders, CEO-FEEEDS.  AllAfrica.com and GB Group Global led by Dr. Gloria Herndon were this year's featured partners. This is the third year Allafrica.com has been the media partner and the first that GB Group Global participated.
 
In her opening remarks, Ambassador Sanders said the FEEEDS-GALLUP Africa Diaspora SME Business Forum represents an important step forward for high-level meetings in sharing practical and useful information to Africa SMEs, the state of the current U.S.-Africa business relationship, and Gallup's important data of the state of the Sub-Saharan Africa Region.  "It also provides for a unique platform to highlight the role that Africa Diaspora SMEs are playing in the region's economic development, GDP growth, and spurring the middle class," Sanders said.
 
In her speech, President Obama's Special Assistant for Africa, Catherine Byrne, noted that despite huge security challenges, democracy and business growth have taken root in Africa and "there is progress."  She said progress can be seen in several countries in Africa including places such as Zambia and Nigeria where exemplary general elections were held with winners and losers embracing peace or violence.  She said the second U.S.-Africa Business Forum planned for New York in September 21, 2016 will solidify the Obama Administration's effort to not only increase US-Africa business ties, but strengthen the US-Africa relationship. Byrne identified some of the economic policies that have achieved results in Africa as the Security Governance and Trade Africa Initiatives, Power Africa, FEED the Future program, The Young Africa Leaders Initiative (YALI), the U.S.-Africa Business Forum, assistance setting up an Africa-like Center for Disease Control (which is already underway as a result of the Ebola outbreak), the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), efforts to fight corruption, and the extensions of the  African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) for another 10 years – all will be part of President Obama's Africa legacy. She highlighted these examples that we can all build on in response to questions about: what has been achieved; where is the US-Africa relationship going, and, what was next in the relationship.
 
The Africa Diaspora SME business forum had two sessions.  The first session, moderated by AllAfrica.com's CEO Reed Kramer, had Alicia Robinson-Morgan, Leila Ndiaye and Rahama Wright. The panel discussed Africa's current investment opportunities, key sectors for SME participation, the role of President Obama's PAC-DBIA, and his upcoming U.S.-Africa Business Forum. Click here to read full Allafrica.com story http://allafrica.com/stories/201607181038.html

Monday, July 11, 2016

EINnewswire Distributes to 60 Channels Allafrica.com release on Gallup-FEEEDS July14,2016 AfricaSMEForum

EIN newswire distributes Allafrica.com press release on July 14, 2016 Gallup-FEEEDS-Allafrica-GB Group Global Africa Diaspora SME Business Forum to its 60 investment, banking, finance, economic, and education channels. see www.bit.ly/Gallup-FEEEDS-AllAfrica

Friday, July 8, 2016

FEEEDS-GALLUP Hosts 3rd Africa Forum,July 14, 2016;Allafrica.com Media Partner

Gallup World Poll is again partnering with the FEEEDS Advocacy Initiative to host important conference on Africa Diaspora SMEs. Event Media partner is Africa's leading site Allafrica.com. See Allafrica.com press release Gallup and FEEEDS Convene Africa Diaspora Business Forum July 14