Zimbabwe President, E.D. Mnangagwa, has been excluded from attending the ongoing 17th U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Luanda, Angola.
A 2023 U.S. Senate objection was raised regarding his invitation to previous U.S.-Africa summits, which may have affected his participation in recent events.
Zimbabwe’s delegation were present at recent Africa-U.S. business forums, but Mnangagwa personally attending the 2025 Luanda summit is unlikely.
The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) is a leading U.S.-based nonprofit business association established in 1993 with the mission to promote, facilitate, and strengthen commercial relations between the United States and African nations. Its core role is to support U.S. companies in accessing African markets while fostering sustainable growth in bilateral trade and investment. CCA achieves this by advocating for favorable trade legislation, expanding financing options for investments, and encouraging private sector partnerships across both regions.
CCA organizes flagship events such as the U.S.-Africa Business Summit and sector-specific conferences, which serve as premier platforms for networking, knowledge exchange, and deal-making among African and American government officials, business leaders, and investors.
Additionally, CCA runs sector- and country-specific working groups that foster dialogue on emerging business prospects and help members navigate the African business landscape.
The leader of the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) is Florizelle (Florie) Liser, who serves as the President and CEO of the organization.
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Robert Mugabe
Robert Mugabe never attended the U.S.-Africa Business Summit. He was explicitly excluded from the 2014 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit hosted by President Barack Obama due to his poor human rights record and history of alleged election rigging, and U.S. travel and financial sanctions against him
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Oscar Pistorius made a quiet but notable return to competitive sport by participating in the Isuzu Ironman 70.3 triathlon in Durban on June 1, 2025. This marked his first public sporting event since being released on parole in January 2024, following his conviction for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in 2013.
Competing in the physically challenged category, Pistorius finished third with a time of 5 hours, 56 minutes, and 39 seconds, completing the demanding race that included a 1.9 km swim, 90 km bike ride, and 21.1 km run.
Notes
Oscar Pistorius’s recent participation in the Ironman 70.3 triathlon in Durban has reignited public debate around the controversial figure whose life story is marked by both extraordinary athletic achievement and a tragic criminal conviction. Pistorius, once celebrated as the “Blade Runner” and the first double amputee to compete in the Olympics in 2012, saw his career and reputation shattered after the fatal shooting of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine’s Day 2013. Pistorius fired four shots through a locked bathroom door in his Pretoria home, claiming he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder. Initially convicted of culpable homicide in 2014, the conviction was later overturned on appeal to murder in 2015 under the legal principle of dolus eventualis—meaning he foresaw the possibility that his actions could kill someone and reconciled himself to that outcome. He was sentenced to 13 years and five months in prison but was released on parole in January 2024 after serving about half his sentence.
