On 15 th April 2026, Tanzania hosted the Global Entrepreneurship Festival’s (GEF) Business Mixer as part of preparations for the Cairo 2026 summit. The event focused on investment readiness, digital infrastructure, and scaling African businesses globally.
The event is the first in a series of 14 global business mixers planned in different countries, including Namibia, Ethiopia, the United States, Canada, and Nigeria, ahead of the Cairo summit. The meeting convened policymakers, entrepreneurs, investors, and diplomats to discuss economic diplomacy, investment, and business growth across Africa, and served as a networking platform linking entrepreneurs with investors and advisors.
Participants also addressed constraints, including limited infrastructure, financing gaps, and low technology adoption, and discussed the need for a continental digital public infrastructure to support the African market. Speaking at the event, the Ambassador of Egypt to Tanzania, Sherif Abdelhamid Ismail, noted, “Our government, through the reforms across the previous decades, has always prioritized support for the activities of the private sector, which is the true engine of economic growth.” He added that the initiative is intended to facilitate dialogue at the highest level and align development priorities with investment decisions. On his part, the Director General of Tanzania’s ICT Commission, Dr. Nkundwe Mwasaga, noted: “We want to build an economy of USD 1 trillion in this country, and we want the private sector to be able to do that.”
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