 Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Good afternoon. My name is Amir Ben-Yamed. I'm the CEO of the Jeune Afrique Média Group and chairman of the Africa CEO Forum. The World Policy Conference and Thierry de Montréal has kindly asked me to chair this panel. It's a very big responsibility, especially since we're the closing panel, after three days of heated debate. So we have big responsibilities to keep you alert for this last panel, and it's a very big responsibility because we will try to answer as simply as possible a question that is not so simple to answer. So it's not so simple first because from Johannesburg to Alger, from Nairobi to Lagos, these countries have different issues, different challenges, and they will also are facing, they are also facing some new geopolitical change, a new geopolitical landscape that is shaping the world for the next decades, and we still have some difficulties to understand how it will affect Africa. And we have also some cross-cutting issues, such as climate change, such as artificial intelligence that will be critical to the standard of Africa, to the standing of Africa and the rest of the world. So it's a very important, very complicated question to answer, but it's a very important one, probably because Africa has one of the most important targets in terms of development goals, but it has also some of the most promising resources to capitalize on it to reach these targets. They have renewable energy, they have minerals, and most importantly, they have human resources. We have spoken a lot about the demographic dividend. Africa is finally capitalizing on it. So to answer this difficult question, we have a great lineup of experts, and I will switch to French now because most of our panelists are French-speaking, are Francophones, so I will start by introducing Yonelle Zansou. Yonelle Zansou is the co-manager of Southbridge. She is one of the first banks of business dedicated to Africa. Yonelle Zansou has also been the director of one of the largest investment funds, PAI Partners, and also has an important political career since you were the Prime Minister of Benin. On the left, we have Bertrand Badré. Bertrand, you are the founder and director of Blue Like One Sustainable Capital, which is an impact investment fund. You have also been the head of the World Bank, you have been the general director and you have been the financial director. We have General Francis B. Enzin, who will be our security minister today. You have this heavy responsibility, you are a specialist in security issues, you are an former commissioner at the Africa Bank, and you have been the director of the World Bank, you are a specialist in security issues, you are an former commissioner at the political affairs within the CDAO, and you are now president of the World Bank, of security professionals, and of defense for prevention and fight terrorism. On the left, Jean-Michel Severino. You are the founder of IEP, an investment partner. You are one of the oldest private equity companies in Africa, and you have been the general director for almost 10 years, I believe, of the French Development Agency. And finally, our last expert, who will be here to talk to us about governance, because you are, it is your expertise, Master Robert Dossou, you are a lawyer at the Paris Barrow, you are a lawyer at the Cotonou Barrow, you are currently president of the African Association of International Rights, and you also have a political career, since you have been minister of the plan, and minister of foreign affairs at the Benin. We have two very eminent representatives from the Benin. Welcome everyone, thank you for your participation. So, you will have a heavy responsibility to answer this question, which is very complex. I will try to... Some of the moderators have imposed between 10 and 7 minutes of response, I will be a little more drastic, and I will try to impose 4 minutes of response to allow you to talk regularly and to exchange, and to become the number of topics that make up this question. We will start with a little general question, which is that, since the 2000s, Africa has been inscribed in a narrative of a continent with strong growth, with strong potential, with a private sector in full expansion. This narrative has been spread by excellent figures that Lionel will be able to cite us, because I know that you are, you can all cite us by heart today, since the 2000s, until the COVID-19 episode. And the COVID-19 episode has somewhere marked a pause in this narrative, almost a reversal, since we are now facing a situation in which there is a reinforcement of security problems. We have had 5 main costs of state in the francophone region, conflicts, civil war in the South, in Ethiopia, and therefore this narrative is once again spread by a certain number of retreats on government issues, on security issues, on economic issues, and now we are in a global economic crisis where the question is how Africa will continue to finance this development and I would like to ask each of you a fairly simple and general question, what is your current perception of the continent, what is your current perception of the evolution of this narrative? Are we in a growing crisis? Are we in a pause, in a kind of transition? How can you explain to our audience what you perceive of the situation of the continent today?