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La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, p. 23
Luanda. When talking about original sin of our nationthe outgoing president of the United States, Joe Biden, yesterday visited a slavery museum in Angola and examined some shackles and a whip, but he also stated that in 2050 one in four people in the world will be African and that the fate of the world is in his hands. Biden’s visit, the first by a US president to Angola, is intended to promote investments worth billions of dollars in the sub-Saharan nation, in what he defined as the United States’ largest railway project abroad. Washington bet on AfricaBiden said yesterday to the Angolan president, João Lourenço, who described Biden’s visit as turning point in relations between the United States and Angola, which date back to the cold war. In response to China’s influence on the continent, the United States plans to invest $3 billion for the railway remodeling of the Lobito Corridor, which links Zambia, Congo and Angola. Which would facilitate the export of raw materials.
