Global Africa - Africa in the world and the world in Africa

Comfort Ero, President and CEO of the International Crisis Group We have to discuss the repercussions of the emerging Cold War between the West and Russia, and between America and China, the repercussions of which will come to Africa. [...] Mark Malloch-Brown, President of the Open Society Foundations, former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations In the end everybody has to wake up to the fact that… the era of globalisation… of markets determining the allocation of wealth around the world, is over. [...] William Ruto, President of Kenya 27 We have the wrong architecture in the management of the African Union… the Chair of the AU Commission can do very little because we have retained all the powers as Heads of State, and yet you cannot run one country and run the continent of Africa... [...] This group consists of African Ministers of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development, the African Union (AU), the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Export- Import Bank (Afreximbank), the World Bank Group (WBG), and includes the participation of staff and Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). [...] There is a shortfall in resources for both the IMF’s and the World Bank’s concessional lending windows – the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) in the case of the IMF and the International Development Association (IDA) in the case of the World Bank Group.