countries were not invited because of issues with democratic process or lack there of and we have robin sandersnd former ambassador to nigeria and republican of congo and works on economic development and on skype in south africa, associate edder at the daily maverick, a south african newspaper and former u.s. diplomate to africa and thanks to both of you for being there and this is historic event and 40 leaders coming to d.c. for the event and what is president obama hoping to get out of it? >> one of the things is to raise the u.s., africa relationship and historically it is thought that china and india had a different perspective and different relationship with us. but i think this is historic in so many ways and it's 50 countries coming and only four countries who is not been invited and egypt is invited and central african republic and weste western saraha and zimbobwai and they will talk about the next generation and africa has a population of 1.5 billion and projected to be 2.4 billion by 2040 so that is a lot of people that we need to have a positive relationship with and looking at the

frank glover is a medical missionary who worked in liberia and robin sanders, the former u.s. ambassador to congo and nigeria. welcome to you both. dr. glover, i want to start with you. it seems like the two patients who are now in atlanta are doing much better, are we out of danger of the virus spreading within the united states? >> dr. glover? >> well, no, we aren't out of that danger, this is an international public health emergency that the world health organization just declared on friday and we're still seeing new cases and new suspected cases popping up in places like europe, canada and of course in nigeria. >> and back to africa, you warned congress this week, that unless something is done, this ebola outbreak could spread tens of thousands -- what has to happen in order to prevent that? >> well, what has to happen is immediate protective gear must be given to the workers who are on the ground. there's been a large death toll from the nurses and doctors who are trying to treat this disease. the health system has completely collapsed meaning they don't have the capacity

africa summit is robin sanders, former u.s. ambassador to nigeria. thanks for being with us. many americans still associate africa with aid and not investment. does this summit in your mind signal a change in the u.s. approach to africa? >> yes, it's been a change that's been building for quite some time. i'm delighted that the summit i go happening. a summit like this is called for in the legislation in 2000, it's taken us 10 years to get there, but i think we're finally seeing that the return on investment, the people to people exchanges between the u.s. and africa and the investment opportunities that also create jobs in the united states, i think we're coming lately to the game, of course, but i think we're playing catch up pretty fast. >> give examples of how trade with africa could benefit americans. >> you have a number of vehicles. you've got the african growth and opportunity act, i heard in your previous segment the bank mentioned and there's positive things the xm bank does to help create u.s. jobs, it creates export jobs here in terms of manufactured goods from th

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