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United States Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to visit Zambia in late March. This is part of an African tour that will take her to Ghana and Tanzania. This visit will be the most high-profile as the US and Russia go pound-for-pound countering each other in Africa, as the war in Ukraine enters its second year.
United States Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to visit Zambia in late March. This is part of an African tour that will take her to Ghana and Tanzania. This visit will be the most high-profile as the US and Russia go pound-for-pound countering each other in Africa, as the war in Ukraine enters its second year.
Vice President Harris could set the stage for the eventual promised arrival of President Joe Biden, a vow he made at the US Africa Leaders’ Summit in Washington DC in December.
So far, first lady Jill Biden’s visits to Namibia and Kenya are regarded as the highest profile followed by that of US Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen who was in Senegal, South Africa, and Zambia last month.
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Edward Burrier, a senior advisor for private sector engagement at the US Institute of Peace, called the planned visits by American envoys to Africa supercharged because they were moving beyond the typical secretary of state visits. Since January, by counting 17 including the first lady, the envoys have been to 11 African countries. Burrier in his analysis pointed out that visits to Africa show that the continent will shape the future of the global economy.
Although Africa has some of the world’s fastest-growing economies, democratic advancements sometimes stall because of insurgencies, corruption, and weak governance.
