00:00We have CEOs here in the room. What is the responsibility of multinational companies
00:04with respect to community building investments? Thank you so much for that question. And as you
00:11look at the accomplishments of the Biden-Harris administration over the course of the past two
00:17and a half years, we have worked diligently to engage with the private sector, to engage with
00:23African leaders, to bring them together. We had a leader summit and a business conference
00:32last year in December, where we are working to see what the opportunities are to bring
00:40American companies to the continent of Africa, where we will create jobs and build resiliencies
00:47in these economies. Over the course, for example, of the past three years, somewhere around
00:53200 deals have been struck. There are a number of American companies, I won't name them here
01:01because I don't know who's in the room, that have invested in Africa. And we saw that during
01:08COVID, the importance of having companies invest in not just Africa, but to invest in communities,
01:16to invest in people.
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