“Today I’m announcing over $1 billion in new humanitarian support for Africans displaced from homes by historic droughts and food insecurity. We know African leaders and citizens are seeking more than just aid. You seek investment. So the United States is expanding our relationship all across Africa, from assistance to aid to investment to trade. Moving from patrons to partners to help bridge the infrastructure gap.”
That was President Joe Biden making history as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Angola, delivering a powerful speech at the National Museum of Slavery.
He acknowledged the horrors of slavery that link the U.S. and Angola and reflected on the millions of Africans who were forcibly taken through Angola to the Americas.
Biden pledged over $1 billion in humanitarian aid.
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