Wanda Tucker — a descendant of the first Africans brought from Angola to English-speaking North America — returned to her ancestor’s homeland with President Joe Biden in a history-making trip last

Washington's proposed extension of a railway line into the region was seen as incentive for peace between the DRC and Rwanda, which backs rebels fighting there.

January 15 marks 50 years since the Alvor Agreement promised Angola’s independence from Portugal. Yet the new state was doomed to be a Cold War battleground, with Washington planners seeking to avenge their defeat in Vietnam.

President and CEO, was honored to represent CCA as a member of the official delegation of President Joseph Biden’s trip to Angola.  To fulfil a commitment to travel to Africa made during the December 2022 U.

The United States offered to extend its signature African investment project into the troubled east of the Democratic Republic of Congo as an incentive for a peace deal, but Rwanda has backed away, a senior US diplomat said.

Samantha Power served as the USAID Administrator under the outgoing Biden Administration in the United States. With a new administration taking leadership in the U.S. under a new president, Trump, the future of USAID is uncertain.

Experts agree that the private sector must play a role in African urbanization, saying African states are too fiscally constrained to fill the investment gap themselves. Rendeavour, a private company with a multibillion-dollar balance sheet, has deep enough pockets to make a difference.

The Olympics were about to take place in Moscow. The world was in crisis. The Games were threatened. The USA reacted, imposing sanctions on the USSR and boycotting the Games!

WHO reported eight suspected cases of the Marburg virus in Tanzania. However, health officials in the country have denied the presence of the virus.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of External Civil Rights Compliance (OECRC) and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) have signed an Informal Resolution Agreement addressing a civil rights complaint related to permitting for a bioenergy project in Seaford.

Angola’s Lobito Corridor railway, for instance, is allegedly controlled by corrupt international corporations such as Trafigura, known for scandals spanning Brazil to Mongolia. Despite public outcry for local or African-led development, Western capitalists dominate the project, further entrenching Angola’s dependency.

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