Pride and prejudice

A row over a pan-African trade bank threatens Cairo's diplomatic and commercial standing

Mild-mannered Ivorian banker Jean-Louis Ekra is an improbable figure to be in the eye of a continental storm. But a diplomatic storm is indeed brewing as the dispute worsens between Cairo and several other African capitals over the appointment of Ekra as President of Afreximbank, a multilateral bank set up in 1993 to promote intra-African trade. Afreximbank is a public-private partnership, majority-owned by public sector shareholders and multilateral institutions representing 34 African countries.

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Ivorian, Jean-Louis Ekra, Ahmed al Bardai, Nigerian, Olusegun Obasanjo, Hosni Mubarak, Robert Mugabe, Guinea, Senegal, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Omar Kabbaj, Namibia, Britain, Farouk Abd el Baky el Okdah, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Rachid Mohamed Rachid, China, Banque du Caire, Banque du Caire, Africa Confidential, Africa Confidential

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