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The African CEO Council welcomes the official launch of the Africa Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA), describing it as an important milestone in Africa’s efforts to strengthen its financial architecture, deepen capital markets and improve the quality of information available to investors assessing African economies and enterprises. 

The African CEO Council welcomes the official launch of the Africa Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA), describing it as an important milestone in Africa’s efforts to strengthen its financial architecture, deepen capital markets and improve the quality of information available to investors assessing African economies and enterprises. 

The launch of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals Initial Public Offering represents more than another corporate transaction. It is an important moment for African enterprise, industrialisation and capital-market development. 

The African CEO Council is calling on chief executives, investors and business leaders across Africa to renew their commitment to sustainable business practices as the continent advances its energy transition, expands electricity access and pursues industrialisation and economic transformation.

The African CEO Council is calling for the development of a more effective, integrated and supportive business ecosystem to enable African enterprises to become more resilient, responsible, innovative and future-ready in an increasingly complex global economy.

The African CEO Council is calling on governments across Africa to place entrepreneurship, innovation, technological advancement and sustainable job creation at the centre of their economic development strategies, stressing that a dynamic and competitive private sector is essential to the continent’s long-term prosperity.