非洲领导人峰会将在美国召开
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Delegates are gathering1 in Washington DC for the largest ever summit of African leaders in the US.

非洲各国代表齐聚美国华盛顿参加有史以来规模最大的非洲领导人峰会。
 
Nearly 50 heads of state are expected to attend the three-day event, which began on Monday.
 
US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker has said about $900m in business deals will be formally announced during the event.
 
But the presidents of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have cancelled their plans to attend amid an Ebola outbreak.
 
The disease has killed more than 800 people across West Africa.
 
US President Barack Obama promised to convene2(召集) a summit during his three-country Africa tour last year, when he visited Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa.
 
The summit's focus is on trade and business with the continent, where the US lags behind China, says the BBC's African Service editor Solomon Mugera.
 
China has a trade volume with the continent of $200bn, more than double the US, and it started the Africa summit trend in 2001. Japan, India and Europe have followed.
 
The summit also comes shortly after Ghana has said it will seek financial aid from the International Monetary3 Fund (IMF) to help strengthen the West African nation's currency, which has become one of the world's worst-performing currencies this year.


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1 gathering ChmxZ     
n.集会,聚会,聚集
参考例句:
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
2 convene QpSzZ     
v.集合,召集,召唤,聚集,集合
参考例句:
  • The Diet will convene at 3p.m. tomorrow.国会将于明天下午三点钟开会。
  • Senior officials convened in October 1991 in London.1991年10月,高级官员在伦敦会齐。
3 monetary pEkxb     
adj.货币的,钱的;通货的;金融的;财政的
参考例句:
  • The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
  • Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
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