By Arlette Saenz and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden will fulfill a two-year promise to visit Africa as he departs Sunday night for Angola, a trip aimed at highlighting US investment in the continent under his watch in the face of China’s deepening inroads in the region.
President Biden will travel to Angola this week, becoming the first sitting president to do so and following through on a years-long pledge to visit sub-Saharan Africa.
In Angola on likely his last overseas trip in office, the president will tour a slavery museum and spotlight a rail corridor that is part of his administration’s strategy in the region.
Outgoing US President Joe Biden is headed to the southern African country of Angola this week, fulfilling a key promise in a bid to shore up ties with the
President Biden visits Angola this week and is spending billions to get better supplies of electric vehicle battery metals, but the admin may have already been beaten by China's investments.
The president stopped in Cape Verde on his way to Angola, where he will highlight American commitment to Africa in the economic competition against China.
Joe Biden on Tuesday was using the first visit to Angola by a U.S. president to promote Washington's investments in the sub-Saharan African nation and see a slavery museum, where he'll acknowledge the trafficking of humans that once linked the nations' economies.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday acknowledged how the horrific history of slavery has connected the United States and Angola while delivering a hopeful vision for the future in a major speech from a country that was the point of departure for millions of enslaved Africans.
LUANDA, Angola -- President Joe Biden arrived for his long-awaited first presidential visit to sub-Saharan Africa on Monday to the cheers of thousands in Angola, where he will highlight an ambitious U.S.-backed railway project meant to counter China's influence on the continent of over 1.
Joe Biden arrived in Angola to promote the Lobito Corridor railway project, seeking to strengthen US ties in Africa. The trip is his last as US president before Donald Trump takes office in January 2025.
In becoming the first American leader to visit Angola, President Biden said it was important not to forget the ugly legacy that originally defined relations with Africa.
LUANDA, Angola (AP) — Joe Biden is using the first visit to Angola by a U.S. president to promote Washington’s hefty modern investments in the sub-Saharan Africa nation and to see a slavery museum where he’ll acknowledge how the trafficking of human beings once linked the two nations’ economies.
