Biden is Losing Africa. Harris or Trump Won’t Do Better.
The US pays scant attention to Africa. Not so Russia and China. Guess who’s winning there.
Out of Africa.
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Africans may comfort themselves that greeting a lame duck from Washington is better than hosting no duck at all. Having postponed his first and only trip to Africa as president, Joe Biden now has new plans to visit Angola — in December, a month before he exits the White House.
That just about sums up America’s enthusiasm for wooing the continent with the world’s fastest-growing population, a region, no less, that is increasingly turning away from Washington and bowing to new imperial overlords in Moscow and Beijing. If the United States keeps putting Africa last — and it probably will, whether the next president is Donald Trump or Kamala Harris — let nobody be surprised if the continent, if not the whole Global South, eventually sides with America’s enemies.