Paul Sullivan was a featured panelist at the Corporate Council on Africa's 10th biennial U.S.-Africa Business Summit. The panel focused on infrastructure and explored ways to build on the African Development Bank’s Africa50 Fund Initiative. Panelists debated on how domestic resources and foreign investments could be leveraged to expand African infrastructure.  Read More »

U.S.-based Mondelez International's Cocoa Life Sustainability program has assisted 76,700 farmers in nearly 800 communities since it began in 2012. The program covers the cocoa-growing regions of Ghana, Ivory Coast, Indonesia, the Dominican Republic, India and Brazil. Mondelez reports that farmers in the Cocoa Life regions have experienced tripled incomes since 2009. Read More »

A high-tech teaching regimen developed by the New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is helping students in Gambia perform better on standardized tests. Since 2012, CTL has been working with the Gambia MoBSE to see if a program that successfully improved student performance in math and science in New Jersey would have the same impact on students in West Africa. Read More »

Merck & Co., a global leader in the pharmaceutical industry, is looking to gain a larger presence over the next five years across the African continent. Read More »

Global pharmaceutical and technology company Merck said on Wednesday that it has opened an office in Nigeria, its first in the African nation. Read More »

Mondelez International opened a new production facility in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday. The new plant represents a $50 million investment and is part of Modelez's plan to expand regional brands, such as Cadbury Bournvita, in key markets while developing a more efficient supply chain. Supplanting the older facility, which failed to keep up with demand, the new plant is fully automated. Read More »