Namibia: Jill Biden to Highlight Empowering Women, Children On Second Day of Namibia Visit

Jill Biden Highlights Empowering Women, Children On Second Day in Namibia: Namibia

Biden is also due to go Thursday to a U.S.-funded project in the capital, Windhoek, that focuses on empowering women and children and ensuring access to economic opportunities and health resources."We wanted to come because you know this is a young democracy, and we want to support democracies around the world," Biden said."We met each other in December, and we're just continuing the relationship. Monica and I think it's safe to say that we became good friends instantly.

Geingos said there was a lot in Namibia she would like to show Biden, who is making the first visit to the country by an incumbent first lady. "It is a very vibrant democracy. We've got a very large youth population, who drives that democracy, very energetic and fully enabled by our constitutional values but also by the personal values of our leadership," Geingos said.

Jill Biden is the first White House official to visit the country after President Joe Biden last year pledged to send administration officials to the continent. She follows Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who visited earlier this year. Like Biden, Thomas-Greenfield focused part of her visit around a food security crisis in East Africa -- something Biden plans to highlight when she visits Kenya later this week. But these high-profile visits are also happening against the background of increased visits by top-level Russian and Chinese officials to the continent.Get the latest in African news delivered straight to your inbox

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