Former PM Raila Odinga heads to Ethiopia for conference about Africa’s economy

By Standard Digital Reporter

NAIROBI, KENYA: Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga left Nairobi on Wednesday to attend a three day conference on Africa’s economic and governance agenda in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The conference on dubbed A Business Plan for Africa, From Vision to Execution is organized by a number of governmental and African corporate organisations including the African Development Bank (ADB) and the African Union (AU).

Mr Odinga will address a session titled Easier Said than Done: Perspectives from leaders on execution challenges and possible solutions.

The session will focus on the difficulties of translating many of the Continent’s policy proposals into reality, drawing from experience in leadership positions.

He will be in that session alongside Ms. Hadeel Ibrahim, the Founding Executive Director of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Joaquim Chissano, Former President of Mozambique, Amadou Boubacar Cisse, Minister of Economy and Finance of Niger, Pedro Pires - Former President of Cape Verde and Moise Katumbi Chapwe - Governor of Katanga in the  Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Raila will return to the country on Friday to attend the home-comings of Budalang’i MP Ababu Namwamba and Suna East MP Junet Mohammed on Saturday and Sunday respectively.