![]() When Rwanda troops needed to be airlifted to the Central African Republic in 2014 to support an all peacekeeping force, they called on the U.S. įor years, the United States presidential administration, Democratic and Republican alike, have partnered with African governments and regional institutions based on the premise that helping Africa prosper also served the interest of the U.S. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile China continued to strengthen its commitments to the continent as evidenced by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, during which China and African countries strengthened their cooperation on the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. And his administration moved on to commit a series of diplomatic blunders in its relations with the continent, such as snubbing the Chairman of the African Union (AU) Commission in a botched visit to Washington and punishing Rwanda for imposing tariffs on secondhand clothes from the United States. It took President Donald Trump two years before finally appointing an assistant secretary for African Affairs in July last year. ![]() While other countries are grabbing the opportunity to invest in growing African economies, the U.S is struggling to keep up. This wind has equally ignited a new struggle for opportunities to invest on the continent by foreign countries. There is a new wind of change in Africa blowing Africans towards working harder than before to achieving economic prosperity for their people.
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