The increasingly diverse dining options downtown are typified by Bida Manda, a new upscale Laotian restaurant where walls are lined with woven bamboolike sticks.

Fulani herdsmen pose for a photograph during a horse race in Bida in Nigeria’s Niger state on Sunday.

Craig Bida, an executive vice president at Cone, said clients contemplating a cause-related marketing campaign often mention the Buckets for the Cure campaign with trepidation.