U.S. President Joe Biden is “excited” to make his first trip to the African continent next week and will first stop briefly in the small island nation of Cabo Verde before making landfall in the Southwest African nation of Angola.
“He is excited and looking forward to the trip,” Frances Brown, senior director for African affairs at the National Security Council, said at the White House.
“I think the president sees this as a way to sum up all that he’s tried to put forward during this administration on our Africa strategy.”
While there, she said, he will work on three objectives: on bolstering regional security, notably in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo; on growing economic opportunities in the region; and on improving technological and
“He sees Angola as the perfect place for this,” she said.
Some analysts say the fulfillment of Biden’s vow to visit Africa — made in 2022 — is well overdue. Biden originally planned to visit Angola in October; he postponed that trip because Hurricane Milton was bearing down on the eastern United States.
