The US and EU are offering new trade and investment deals to the region. But only Kenya is capitalising on them, Aside from migration control, and its €150 billion (US$163bn) Global Gateway programme – the European Union s underfinanced answer to China s Belt and Road infrastructure scheme – the latest Africa-focused policy from Brussels is to broker agreements on critical raw materials to reduce the EU s overdependence on Chinese industrial and mineral supplies in return for investment in the green transition and industrialisation.