Biden’s Last-Minute African Trip Leaves Trump With Fertile Ground, Say Analysts

Biden’s Angola investments gave the United States a strong foothold in mineral-rich southern Africa and would concern China, regional experts said.
Biden’s Last-Minute African Trip Leaves Trump With Fertile Ground, Say Analysts
U.S. President Joe Biden (3rd R) meets employees of Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR) at the Port in Lobito on Dec. 4, 2024. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
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JOHANNESBURG—Joe Biden was in Angola, an oil-rich former Portuguese colony in southern Africa, this week, for his first and last visit to Africa as President of the United States.

He walked red carpets and gave salutes. At a museum, he delivered a 30-minute speech about the horrors of slavery. He ate seafood from the nearby Atlantic Ocean at a plush hotel built with petrodollars in the capital, Luanda.