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Beyond completing the ninth year of its Africa Thursday Congressional Series, in coordination with the House Subcomittee on Africa and Global Health, and hosting a record-breaking 23rd Annual Awards Gala, AAI held several events and meetings in New York and Washington, D.C. as well as in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, and South Africa in 2007. In New York and Washington, D.C., AAI organized several educational outreach events including a panel discussion and reception at the British Consulate-General in New York on Teacher Training in Africa. Several of AAI's most recent events are listed below.

On the African continent, AAI was represented at several major conferences and held a number of meetings and receptions. In March 2007, Mr. Kofi Boateng, AAI's Chief Operating Officer, travelled to Maputo, Mozambique and Nairobi, Kenya, where he visited the site of the new library being built at the United States International University. AAI is the financial and administrative overseer of the project. He then made his way to Johannesburg, South Africa and visited with current AAI participants of the Namibian Government Scholarship and Training Program (NGSTP) at AAI's South Africa Office.

In May 2007, Ms. Fiona Dunne, AAI's Senior Director of Corporate and External Affairs, travelled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to attend the Africa Travel Association's (ATA) 32nd Annual Congress. While in Ethiopia, Ms. Dunne held meetings with representatives from the African Union and the U.S. Embassy, as well as AAI alumni who were participating in the ATA Congress.

In July 2007, Ms. Mora McLean, AAI's President & CEO, attended the Sixth U.S.-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum in Accra, Ghana. While in Accra, Ms. McLean hosted a dinner for 20 AAI Ghanaian Alumni, including Dr. Ablade Glover, renowned African artist, Nik AmarteFio, CEO of African Select Mining, and Dr. Araba Sefa-Dedeh, Head of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Ghana Medical School.

And most recently in November of 2007, Ms. McLean travelled to Maputo, Mozambique to visit AAI's office there, meet with Mozambican alumni of AAI-administered programs and host a reception, which attended by nearly 100 alumni, including Paulo Zucula, Director of the National Disaster Management Institute, Lara Carrilho, Programme Officer for the World Food Programme, Rafael Massinga, Principal Reseacher for the National Institute for Agronomic Research (INIA), and Ana Maria Dai, General Practitioner for the Ministry of Health in Mozambique.

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AAI's recent events in New York:

| Nov 14, 2007 AAI AND BRITISH CONSULATE HOST RECEPTION AND PANEL DISCUSSION ON TEACHER TRAINING IN AFRICA Panelists From Left: Dr. Joyce Malombe, Desmond Birmingham, Perien Boer, Niamani Mutima, and Kofi Boateng During International Education Week, AAI and the British Consulate-General in New York co-hosted a panel discussion and reception at the Consulate in New York on Teacher Training in Africa: Approaches & Challenges. Panelists compared approaches to teacher education and training in different African countries and discussed the challenges facing the teaching profession in Africa today... Read More >> ------------------------------------------------- | Sep 19, 2007 AAI's 23rd ANNUAL AWARDS GALA TANZANIA: EDUCATING FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Paul Tudor Jones II, Gala Chair, presenting the AAI African National Achievement Award to President Kikwete of Tanzania AAI held its 23rd Annual Awards Gala at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park Hotel in New York. Under the theme Tanzania: Educating for a Sustainable Future, the Gala paid tribute to the People of Tanzania for the East African nation's significant progress in education, environmental conservation, and in creating a business-friendly environment for entrepreneurs and investment. H.E. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, accepted the AAI African National Achievement Award on behalf of the People of Tanzania... Read More >> ------------------------------------------------- | Aug 07, 2007 AAI HOSTS RECEPTION WITH ANNA GETANEH, ETHIOPIAN FASHION DESIGNER AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR From Left: Kofi Appenteng, AAI Board Chair; Mora McLean, AAI President & CEO; Fraser Conlon, AMARIDIAN; Anna Getaneh, African Mosaique; and Natalie Hahn, The Malaika Foundation Mora McLean, President & CEO of AAI, and Natalie Hahn, Founder & President of The Malaika Foundation, hosted a reception at AMARIDIAN art gallery in New York for Anna Getaneh's 2007 African Mosaique fashion collection. Anna is a fashion designer, social entrepreneur and the Founder of The Ethiopian Children's Fund... Read More >>

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