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Africa-Press – Angola. <\/strong><\/span>U.S. President Joe Biden hosted the president of oil-rich Angola for the first time Thursday, with the leaders focusing on a $1 billion, U.S.-funded rail development that aims to connect the oil-rich nation\u2019s ports to the continent\u2019s resource-rich interior, and in doing so, perhaps loosen China\u2019s hold on the continent.<\/b><\/p>\n

The leaders also agreed to hold a dialogue next year \u201cfocused on the secure and stable supply of energy and deeper commercial ties while advancing our shared climate goals.\u201d The U.S. has held similar talks with African oil giant Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Biden cast this rare Oval Office visit by an African leader as an exemplar of his retooled Africa strategy.<\/p>\n

Seated next to President Joao Loureno and in front of a roaring fireplace, Biden said, \u201cAs you\u2019ve heard me say before, America is all in on Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that the continent \u201chas 1 billion people. Critically important, how it functions to the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2023, Africa\u2019s population totaled about 1.4 billion, according to the CIA\u2019s World Factbook.<\/p>\n

Details aside, the continent, and Angola in particular, should be seen as a big deal, said Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali, a Howard University history professor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my opinion it\u2019s an essential partner,\u201d he told VOA. \u201cOf course, it depends on how America wants to look at another African country such as Angola. If it looks at Angola as just another country with which you can only deal on light issues, well, that does not benefit Angola.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we remember that it\u2019s a country with a long history of conflict resolution, nationally and regionally, it would be positive and not just as another country with natural resources that America is interested in,\u201d Mabeko-Tali said.<\/p>\n

The two leaders\u2019 hourlong meeting Thursday mainly focused on a U.S.-funded rail corridor that would run from Angola\u2019s oil-rich coast deep into the African interior, where China and the U.S. are competing for access to resources. The route cuts through volatile southern Congo, which is rich in rare earth minerals, and dips into copper-rich Zambia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S. engagement in the Lobito Corridor in telecommunications and energy, mainly green energy, is an evidence of that support, because infrastructures like those will help the development not only of Angola, but the whole African continent,\u201d Lourenco said.<\/p>\n

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VOA asked the White House how this corridor, to which Biden has committed $1 billion, can work without peace in Congo, which is part of Lourenco\u2019s work as the African Union\u2019s top peace envoy.<\/p>\n

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby didn\u2019t say what steps the administration is taking to support Lourenco\u2019s efforts in the troubled region, where matters are complicated by a few long-serving leaders with large personalities, well-documented violations of human rights, civil liberties and democratic practices, and a history of interfering in each others\u2019 affairs.<\/p>\n

Instead, Kirby pointed to the administration\u2019s efforts through Biden\u2019s Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, widely seen as the U.S.\u2019 counter to China\u2019s much larger Belt and Road Initiative.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president\u2019s very excited about this,\u201d Kirby said. \u201cThis is a real landmark effort as part of PGII, helping lower-middle income countries find sustainable investments in their infrastructure that can not only create jobs, but also open up economic opportunities in this case, all across that southern part of sub-Saharan Africa. So it\u2019s very exciting. And we\u2019re going to, we\u2019re going to keep pushing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Analysts say the corridor\u2019s success depends on lasting peace in Congo, which votes next month in a contest between the incumbent and the leader of the southern state that will host the corridor. But also, China may have a role to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s going to be a need to cooperate while also compete with China in order to make the Lobito corridor a success, and I think that\u2019s sort of what\u2019s happening behind the scenes with China,\u201d Michael Walsh, a senior fellow in the Africa Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, told VOA. \u201cThe Lobito corridor is both competition, and to some extent, is going to probably be cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n

VOA also asked what Biden wanted to communicate to Lourenco about criticism of his human rights record.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never shy away from talking about human rights,\u201d Kirby said. \u201cThe president routinely brings that up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lourenco stopped for less than a minute with the gathered press before he left the White House. The meeting, he said, was \u201cbetter than I expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

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