Joining business and Africa’s development

To realize the ambitious goals of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, governments must forge solid partnerships with African businesspeople, says the president of the African Union, Mr. Alpha Oumar Konaré. “We strongly believe in the African private sector,” the former president of Mali told a conference on business support for NEPAD held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in December 2003. “Without its help, we cannot achieve great things.”