The American President, Joe Biden, announced Tuesday, December 3, during a speech in Luanda, “new humanitarian aid of more than $1 billion for Africans displaced by historic droughts”affected by famine in particular.
The American Agency for International Development (USAID) clarified in a press release that it was a “additional assistance to address food insecurity and other urgent needs of refugees, displaced people” in thirty-one countries on the continent.
This funding includes nearly 823 million dollars paid through USAID and nearly 186 million by the State Department, adds the press release, which recalls that Africa is the region “where the percentage of the population suffering from hunger is the highest”.
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-Armed conflicts, extreme weather phenomena and natural disasters explain this situation, and the aid announcement “once again demonstrates our firm commitment alongside our African partners” pour “meeting the challenge of food insecurity”says the text, which calls on other donors to be generous.
In 2024, the United States has provided nearly $6.6 billion in humanitarian aid to sub-Saharan Africa, but more funds must be raised “to meet critical and growing needs”insists USAID.
Joe Biden, the first American president to visit Angola, is due to visit the port of Lobito on Wednesday, some 500 kilometers south of Luanda, to discuss the “Lobito corridor”, a gigantic railway line and emblematic investment of his presidency.
This major infrastructure project aims to assert Washington’s ambitions against China on the continent, a few weeks before the inauguration of Mr. Biden’s successor, Donald Trump, on January 20.
