Biden’s Angola visit highlights U.S. efforts to counter China through the Lobito Corridor, boosting critical materials and infrastructure investments.
Connectivity Wars
U.S. officials’ “debt-trap” rhetoric ignores local agency, hindering constructive engagement with the Global South.
Hurricane Milton delays Biden’s Angola visit — a setback for U.S. efforts to counter China’s dominance over infrastructure and mining in Africa.
The Adani Group’s proposed JKIA deal unfairly grants Adani access to existing airport revenues while burdening Kenya with financial risks.
President Joe Biden congratulated Sri Lanka’s new president on taking office, reflecting the strategic importance of this island country in the competition between the U.S. and China.
Egyptian arm transfers to Somalia raise tensions in the Horn of Africa as Ethiopia and Somaliland react with concern and anger.
China is playing the long game in Africa, aligning infrastructure projects with African leaders’ needs, furthering its own strategic aims.
President Joe Biden will visit Angola, an African country that may play a pivotal role in the competition with China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Nile water intensifies, spreading into Somalia and Somaliland, raising prospects of a proxy war.
China, Tanzania, and Zambia seek to revive the TAZARA railway amid growing great power competition over Central African metals.