{"id":201372,"date":"2025-07-02T01:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-record-breaking-u-s-africa-business-summit-yields-2-5-billion-in-deals-and-commitments-fact-sheet\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:41:25","slug":"africa-record-breaking-u-s-africa-business-summit-yields-2-5-billion-in-deals-and-commitments-fact-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-record-breaking-u-s-africa-business-summit-yields-2-5-billion-in-deals-and-commitments-fact-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Record-Breaking U.S.-Africa Business Summit Yields $2.5 Billion in Deals and Commitments &#8211; Fact Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">From June 22-25, more than 2,700 U.S. and African public and private sector leaders gathered for the 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0U.S.-Africa\u00a0Business Summit, hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa and the President of Angola. \u00a0This year\u2019s Summit marked a record turnout, including 12 African Heads of State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The U.S. Delegation, led by\u00a0<strong>Ambassador Troy Fitrell<\/strong>, Senior Bureau Official for African Affairs, included the senior-most officials advancing U.S. commercial engagement across Africa:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Massad Boulos<\/strong>, Senior&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507010704.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From June 22-25, more than 2,700 U.S. and African public and private sector leaders gathered for the 17th\u00a0U.S.-Africa\u00a0Business Summit, hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa and the President of Angola. \u00a0This year\u2019s Summit marked a record turnout, including 12 African Heads of State. The U.S. Delegation, led by\u00a0Ambassador Troy Fitrell, Senior Bureau Official for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670750:3a60b00d4b41392a14e5c80961d17d9d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[4338,258,256,4263,6495,11541,7844,7522,257,23229,11809,254,5757,44078,16924],"class_list":["post-201372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-billion","tag-commitments","tag-deals","tag-fact","tag-news","tag-recordbreaking","tag-sheet","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summit","tag-u-s-africa","tag-yields"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670750:3a60b00d4b41392a14e5c80961d17d9d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}