Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>Just over a year ago the White House held its U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit with several diplomatic ceremonies. It was seen as the start of a major upgrade for Africa in America\u2019s foreign policy priorities. At the peak of the events, President Joe Biden welcomed 49 African leaders in Washington D.C. and his team strongly suggested he would visit the continent by the end of 2023.<\/p>\nBut that visit never happened.<\/p>\n
YINKA\u2019S VIEW
\nMost Africa watchers agree a presidential visit to a few African countries is mostly symbolic. And events unfolding in Ukraine\u2019s war with Russia and then Israel\u2019s deadly battle with Hamas drew Biden\u2019s attention elsewhere. But it\u2019s starting to feel like Africa has dropped back down the U.S. priorities list.<\/p>\n
Judd Devermont, the president\u2019s special assistant on Africa affairs, rejects that view. He argues that though Biden didn\u2019t visit, there was \u201can unprecedented pace of senior-level travel to Africa\u201d visiting 26 countries this year. That included visits by Vice President Kamala Harris and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Devermont also noted the U.S. has pledged to invest $55 billion in Africa over the next three years.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, nobody in Africa demanded a U.S. presidential visit, said W. Gyude Moore, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington and former Liberian minister. \u201cBut they promised it and there is always skepticism that when it comes to Africa that rhetoric always over-performs substance.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Biden administration is trying to position its bets in Africa as being worthwhile investments in themselves \u2014 but there should be little doubt it has an eye on China and, more recently, on Russia.<\/p>\n
The recent visit by Angolan President Joa\u0303o Lourenc\u0327o was a reminder of the biggest U.S. bet in Africa \u2014 the $14 billion Lobito Corridor logistics project which connects Angola, DR Congo and Zambia. Biden is unlikely to conduct non-essential international trips in 2024 as it\u2019s an election campaign year. But if there was one country he would visit, it could well be Angola, argues Peter Pham, a former U.S. special envoy for Africa\u2019s Great Lakes Region. \u201cWhile it would be good to get the president to visit Africa, ultimately what is more important is delivering significant strategic transformative programs like the Lobito Corridor, not social calls.\u201d<\/p>\n
THE VIEW FROM THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
\nDuring the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in December 2022, President Faustin-Archange Touade\u0301ra of the Central African Republic (CAR) received a memo from Washington encouraging that troubled country to break ties with Russia, according to a story from French newspaper Le Monde. Since 2018 Touade\u0301ra\u2019s government has been propped up in part by Wagner Group paramilitaries.<\/p>\n
Now, news agency AFP reports that the U.S. private security firm Bancroft Global Development has been in negotiations with the CAR government over possible \u201cfuture activities,\u201d in a bid to push out Wagner, which is itself weakened since the demise of its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in August. According to the AFP, the CAR government has indicated that it wants to diversify its relations and that the United States had offered to train CAR soldiers at home and in the U.S.<\/p>\n
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\nSpace has become a new frontier for diplomacy with African countries, reports Voice of America. \u201cU.S. strategy towards Africa in space is actually more about reducing the hegemony of China over Africa than anything else,\u201d said one Nigerian space scientist.<\/p>\n
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