Biden leverages massive economic investment in Angola railway, despite not visiting the African Continent
By Mona Austin (TSN): "America is all in on Africa, all in on Angola" U.S. Pres. Joe Biden stated Thursday after announcing the biggest rail investment in Africa to date. The U.S. will invest in building a far-reaching ground transportation hub. In a bilateral meeting with his Angolan counterpart, President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço of Angola, Biden announced, "We'll be mobilizing more than a million dollar -- $1 billion for railway lines that extend from Angola to Zambia to the DRC, and ultimately to the Indian Ocean, connecting the continent for the first time from east to west." Inviting deeper ties during an election season while foreign affairs is strained by two wars, is an exercise in global strength for Biden who says he wants to make the 1 billion people in Africa more accessible to the rest of the world. Pres. Lourenço said, speaking in Portuguese through and interpreter, "I would like to seize this opportunity to thank you, Presid...