US President Joe Biden has announced billions of dollars in support and investment for Africa at a summit with the continent's heads of state.
President Joe Biden toasted the meeting at a summit dinner alongside Senegal's President Macky SallUS President Joe Biden has announced billions of dollars in support and investment for Africa at a summit with the continent's heads of state.
He said that the crises facing the world today needed African leadership, ideas and innovations, and promised to build on the "vital" investments in Africa made by previous US administrations. the Power Africa initiative launched by President Obama to connect millions of African to the grid among others.
He also mentioned $350m that would be spent on boosting the digital economy and said that $15bn-worth of deals had been struck at the US-Africa Business Forum. Before the end of the summit on Thursday, the US president is also expected to back the African Union's admission as a permanent member of the Group of 20 major economies. It is also likely that he will announce a trip to the continent in the new year.This was about President Biden trying to win back influence in Africa with personal diplomacy as well as by promising billions of dollars of funding in key sectors and rallying private sector investments.
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