African Union

The Group of 20 (G20) summit, hosted this year in New Delhi, India welcomed the African Union (AU) as a new member but was less direct on Russia's war in Ukraine.   What Happened: The summit's final statement exhibited a restrained response to Russia's actions in Ukraine,...

Diplomats at the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization meeting in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines witnessed an unprecedented event last week. According to a Moroccan official, a heated discussion ended with the director general of the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs hitting...

Conducting business in Africa is usually not a simple endeavor. And, while it is true that each country and each region’s economy is very different from the next, a few things can be said about the continent as a whole and the challenges of conducting business there. Wondering what these...

Africa is a very diverse continent, and so are its countries’ economies. However, they have one thing in common: growth is still ahead of them. Another interesting thing to notice is that companies there serve millions of customers, largely due to the fact that penetration of U.S.-based...

Benzinga recently had a conversation with one of Morocco’s top businessmen, Saâd Bendidi. The entrepreneur walked us through the country’s return to the African Union after more than three decades of absence, some of the opportunities for economic expansion ahead and even about...

Benzinga recently had the chance to chat with one of Morocco’s top businessmen, Saâd Bendidi, who walked us through the country’s return to the African Union after more than three decades of absence, discussing some of the opportunities ahead for international economic expansion....

“[Morocco’s] membership in the African Union [...] [is] the conclusion of a big process that has been led for many years.” – Saâd Bendidi. After more than three decades of absence, Morocco returned to the African Union (AU) in 2017. But, the return did not come without...

U.S. President Barack Obama addressed the 54 member states of the African Union on Tuesday in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. He is the first U.S. leader to visit the pan-African government. During his speech, Obama reprimanded the continent's leaders for their corrupt policies and frequent...