 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has received the heads of state and government from Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Morocco and Zambia at Berlin's Chancellery on November 19, one day before hosting the G20 Compact with Africa Investment Summit in the German capital leaders from more than a dozen African countries are heading to Germany for the event which aims to bolster private investment in the world's poorest, but fast-growing, continent-underscoring renewed interest in Africa, European Commission. President Ursula von der Leyen, French President Emmanuel Macron and Dutch Prime Minister Marc Ruda will be among those attending the summit in Berlin, according to German government officials, the Compact with Africa, which was created in 2017 under the German G20 presidency, aims to bring together reform-minded African countries, international organizations and bilateral partners to coordinate development agendas and discuss investment opportunities.