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China, Africa and Joe Biden

Before exiting, Biden heads to Africa to highlight his own counter to China. Will Trump take it up?

Biden's three-day trip to Angola starts Monday and promotes the Lobito Corridor development that he has pushed as a new approach in countering some of China's influence and dominance of Africa's critical minerals.

Reuters on MSN · 9h

Biden's long-awaited Africa trip to tout a win against China

Joe Biden headed to Angola on Sunday for a trip that will deliver on a promise to visit Africa during his presidency and focus on a major U.S.-backed railway project that aims to divert critical minerals away from China.

CNN on MSN · 1d

Biden fulfilling promise to visit Africa as US looks to counter China’s deepening influence in region

President Joe Biden will fulfill a two-year promise to visit Africa as he departs Sunday night for Angola, a trip aimed at highlighting US investment in the continent under his watch in the face of China’s deepening inroads in the region.

Senegal, thiaroye massacre and West Africa

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Senegal demands answers as the West African country commemorates a French colonial massacre

On Dec. 1, 1944, likely hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II were killed by the French army after demanding their unpaid wages.

U.S. News & World Report · 21h

Senegal Seeks Answers 80 Years After French Massacre of African Soldiers

Senegal on Sunday commemorated the 80th anniversary of a massacre of African soldiers who fought for France during World War Two, and were gunned down by French troops in 1944 for demanding fair treatment and payment on their return.

ABC · 1d

Senegal demands answers as it commemorates French colonial massacre

On Dec. 1, 1944, likely hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II were killed by the French army after demanding their unpaid wages

Africa’s future depends on principled classical liberalism—nothing less

Africans deserve the freedom to choose. Anything less just means socialism, with its inevitable consequences of coercion and ...

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Houston’s Thriving West African Food Scene

As the city has welcomed more immigrants from Nigeria and neighboring countries, the local restaurant landscape has ...

France on the back foot in Africa after Chadian snub

A French plan to significantly reduce its military presence in West and central Africa risks backfiring and further ...

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Shelf Drilling secures West Africa contract for jack-up

Oslo-listed Shelf Drilling has secured a contract for one of its jack-up rigs to operate offshore Nigeria, the company said ...

Chocolate prices rise as climate change threatens cocoa harvest in West Africa

Chocolate prices are on the rise this holiday season, in part because climate change is threatening the cocoa harvest in West ...

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Carleton University QES Project Empowers W’Africa Women Scholars

Carleton University has empowered West African women scholars under its Carleton QES West Africa Scholarship Programme. The ...

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Ronald Lamola: South Africa grateful for Nigeria's 'relentless support' during anti-apartheid struggle

Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, has welcomed the visiting Nigerian delegation, led by ...

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Clothing castoffs from the West are piling up and polluting Africa's environment

Secondhand clothes from the West increasingly end up in the waterways and garbage dumps of many African countries, ...

GSE named best Stock Exchange in West Africa

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) has been named the best stock exhange in West Africa for consistently demonstrating a commitment to driving economic growth and supporting sustainable development in ...

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