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LUANDA, Angola — It will had been the emblem of President Biden’s apparently jinxed go back and forth to Angola.
Abeyance in 2023 because of the wars within the Heart East.
Abeyance once more in 2024 because of the catastrophic hurricanes in the south.
And at the handiest complete era of the first-ever go back and forth to Africa for Biden as president, the skies spread out, sending torrential rainfall unwell and overspill poorly tired streets.
It virtually halted the presidential and press convoy’s one-hour experience out of the capital Luanda for Biden to build a accent on the Nationwide Slavery Museum of Angola.
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Greg Palkot, Fox Information’ senior international affairs correspondent, stands as President Biden delivers his cope with on the Nationwide Slavery Museum in Luanda, Angola. (Greg Palkot/Fox Information)
In fact, all this got here in a generation when alternative information used to be pounding unwell as crispy as that rainfall. First, Biden’s self-inflicted pardoning of son Hunter. A Ny homicide of a manage government. The shatter of 2 governments of our maximum notable allies. And the continuing dramas climate Trump’s Cupboard choices.
However as Biden does, he made it, no longer bold to journey up the slick marble steps to the museum itself, however status at a podium dramatically positioned alongside the Atlantic coast with shafts of daylight piercing in the course of the cloudy clouds.
He spoke of the function the colonial masters performed in delivery out hundreds to a presen of servitude, together with to america. Angola used to be a significant participant within the Atlantic slave business.
“It’s our duty to face our history,” Biden famous, “the good, the bad and the ugly.
But he also dealt with the real reason for the trip — helping the strategically-located southwestern African country of Angola steady itself to prepare for the future. By 2050, just 25 years from now. Africa will be the most populous continent in the world.
“In some ways, Africa’s good fortune would be the global’s good fortune. And I mentioned on the U.S.-Africa Top in 2022, america is all in on Africa’s year,” Biden mentioned.
A poster showing President Biden and Angola’s President João Lourenco during a welcome ceremony at Catumbela Airport in Angola Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
To deal with the present, Biden made a surprise announcement of $1 billion in U.S. humanitarian aid to help those displaced in Africa by droughts and extreme weather.
Earlier in the day, in a one-on-one meeting with Angolan President João Lourenco, Biden dealt with the future. There was a big focus on the Lobito Corridor, a rail and infrastructure project backed with $4 billion from the U.S. It is aimed at bringing to an Angolan port critical minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia and agricultural products and other industrial goods from Angola.
Street scenes in Angola’s capital city of Luanda. (Greg Palkot/Fox News)
“We work together to mobilize more capital,” Biden declared, “to build more infrastructure, to help make these solutions real, to help Africa lead the way.”
Critics scoffed that this was just a “too little, too late” attempt to catch up with China, which for years has been busy with infrastructure and other projects all across Africa.
In an interview with Fox News, White House National Security communications director John Kirby pushed back, saying. “It’s about them (the Angolans) catching up and maintaining and be extra concerned … relating to bringing product to marketplace.”
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Greg Palkot’s press credential includes an Angola Soviet-style flag. (Greg Palkot/Fox News)
An anticipated mention of an expanded U.S. military role in Angola did not materialize. The U.S. already sends hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to the country. There’s new talk of a U.S. base there to counter the Russian military’s increasingly active presence on the continent.
But the “elephant” that did lurk at every meeting and gathering was the fact that Biden is now a very lame-duck president and how incoming President-elect Trump, who never made a trip to Africa during his first term in office, who even made derisory comments about certain countries there, would handle it all.
In a recent interview, the Angolan president said he would work with whoever is president.
President Biden stands for national anthems with Angola President João Lourenco at the presidential palace in the capital Luanda, Angola Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
And, actually, in an interview with Fox News, former Trump Africa envoy J. Peter Pham told us he thought many of the projects could survive, especially if China feels a sting.
He added, however, “I do assume the brandnew management will ask some very difficult questions on our investments at the continent, the place they proceed and whether or not it’s the most productive go back on capital.”
Prosperity and poverty in the capital city of Luanda. (Greg Palkot/Fox News)
On the last day of his trip, Biden inspected the Lobito rail hub, where the huge project converges. In a roundtable with other regional leaders, after he noted he was an Amtrak rail fan, he was seen closing his eyes and holding his head in his hands as if he were sleeping, much like he probably dozed on those commuter rides for decades as a senator between Washington and Delaware.
Most in Angola seemed to think, however, the 82-year-old president played his role fairly well in what was called his “world finale.”
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The test will come when it is seen if any of the benefits from these projects trickle down beyond the super-rich in oil-rich Angola, to the mostly young Angolans who are desperate for a life and living.
“Simply the truth that an American is coming to Angola is a great factor,” one Luanda resident advised us.
Regardless of sinister timing and sinister information in other places … a quantity of population right here have hopes.