{"id":1265593,"date":"2022-12-15T15:43:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T15:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/biden-says-us-is-all-in-on-africas-future\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T15:43:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T15:43:17","slug":"biden-says-us-is-all-in-on-africas-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/biden-says-us-is-all-in-on-africas-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden says US is &#8216;all in&#8217; on Africa&#8217;s future |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>US President Joe Biden has announced billions of dollars in new funding for Africa at a summit of dozens of heads of state in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States is &#8216;all in&#8217; on Africa&#8217;s future,&#8221;\u00a0President Biden told\u00a0the over 40 African leaders attending the summit.<\/p>\n<p>He also spoke optimistically of improved links with Africa during a summit in which he announced $55bn (\u00a344.4bn) in new funding for the continent over the next three years. This included $100m for clean energy projects.<\/p>\n<p>He told the gathering in Washington that when Africa succeeded, so too did the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Biden spoke of the importance of good governance, healthy populations and affordable energy.<\/p>\n<p>The summit of heads of state is seen as an attempt by America to re-assert its influence in Africa at a time when China, Russia and Turkey are deepening their involvement.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first such gathering hosted by Washington for eight years.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: BBC<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\"><\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden has announced billions of dollars in new funding for Africa at a summit of dozens of heads of state in Washington. &#8220;The United States is &#8216;all in&#8217; on Africa&#8217;s future,&#8221;\u00a0President Biden told\u00a0the over 40 African leaders attending the summit. He also spoke optimistically of improved links with Africa during a summit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}