{"id":184849,"date":"2021-03-30T13:38:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T11:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/correction-kenya-joins-the-canadaafrica-of-business?lang=en"},"modified":"2021-03-30T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T11:38:12","slug":"correction-kenya-joins-the-canada-africa-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/correction-kenya-joins-the-canada-africa-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"CORRECTION: Kenya joins The Canada-Africa of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/cbd0d6ace2cef6f\/600\/418\" alt=\"The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today, the Republic of Kenya has joined The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business (www.CanadaAfrica.ca) as a full member of the 27-year-old organization, committed to accelerating Canada-Africa trade and investment. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;On behalf of the board, I am pleased to welcome an African hub and a leader on the continent,&rsquo; said Sebastian Spio-Garbrah, Chair of the Board, speaking live from the organization&rsquo;s offices in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business is an independent, not-for-profit organization with strong working links with both Canadian and African businesses and governments. Leading CEOs and Heads of State &#8211; alongside investors, entrepreneurs and policy-makers &#8211; are among the hundreds of speakers and tens of thousands of delegates to in-person and virtual events.<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;We are excited by this new partnership with the Canada-Africa Chamber of Business. We look forward to benefiting from the expertise and knowledge of over a quarter a century promoting trade and investment between Canada and Africa,&rsquo; underscored Mr. Stephen Lorete, the Charge d&rsquo;Affaires at the Kenya High Commission in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;Kenya is a leading and one of the fastest growing economies in Africa with many attractive trade and investment opportunities, across many sectors, and we invite the Chamber&rsquo;s membership and the general Canadian business community to take advantage.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>A packed program of action immediately accompanies the Republic of Kenya&rsquo;s accession to The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business. Over the next two months three (3) major events are scheduled to take place. These are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Second Session of the Binational Commission meeting between Kenya and Canada with a strong trade and investment component taking place in Nairobi, Kenya between 13<sup>th<\/sup>-15<sup>th<\/sup> April 2021.<\/li>\n<li>An upcoming mid-April announcement on a historic MoU with The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business and representatives of Kenya&rsquo;s private sector &#8211; following a seminar held last year in Nairobi with Canadian Trade Minister Mary Ng and companies from both countries.<\/li>\n<li>A Virtual Trade Mission from Canada to Kenya in the second half of May 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&lsquo;Apart from my country of birth, there is no other nation on the continent in which I have spent more time than in the incredible country of Kenya,&rsquo; says Garreth Bloor, President of The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business.<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;Today we are honoured to welcome a leading economy, comprised of some of the world&rsquo;s top business leaders. The opportunities are immense and work toward realizing Canadian trade and investment in Kenya is already well-underway.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Queries:<\/strong><br \/>\nGarreth Bloor<br \/>\nPresident<br \/>\nThe Canada-Africa Chamber of Business<br \/>\nTel: +1.647.667.1223<br \/>\nEmail: garreth@canadaafrica.ca<\/p>\n<p>Manulife Building RTO<br \/>\n55 Bloor Street West, PO Box 19553<br \/>\nToronto, Ontario M4W 3T9<\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/c3f2646d310bb74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/c3f2646d310bb74\" alt=\"The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business\" style=\"max-width:500px;\"\/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/c3f2646d310bb74\">Download logo<\/a><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Republic of Kenya has joined The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business (www.CanadaAfrica.ca) as a full member of the 27-year-old organization, committed to accelerating Canada-Africa trade and investment. &lsquo;On behalf of the board, I am pleased to welcome an African hub and a leader on the continent,&rsquo; said Sebastian Spio-Garbrah, Chair of the Board, speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-184849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/correction-kenya-joins-the-canada-africa-of-business.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}