The event was the 16th edition of the US-Africa Business Summit, organized by the leading US business association, Corporate Council on Africa , solely focused on connecting business interests in Africa.
With the country currently in dire need of serious investments to spur economic growth, this summit presents a clear opportunity for President Boakai and his team to woo American investors. Arguably, this might not be Liberia's first participation at the US-Africa Business Summit, especially since the end of the country's three decades of civil war-an end that ushered in the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf administration in which President Boakai served twelve years as her vice.
However, that is what the organizers can do; the rest is left with President Boakai and the team to work on domestic legislation and put in place the institutional measures that would make doing business here easier.