Biden’s plan to stem China influence in new scramble for Africa
US President Joe Biden meets with the leaders attending the US-Africa Leaders Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Centre in Washington, DC, on December 15, 2022. PHOTO | BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI | AFP
US President Joe Biden was not always seen as interested in Africa. His first meeting with an African head of state at the Oval Office – Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta – did not come until October 2021, nine months after he took power.
This week, however, he sought to reaffirm Africa’s central position in his diplomatic agenda, gathering leaders and delegations from 49 African countries in Washington under the US-Africa Summit.
