US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to the South Africa, DRC and Rwanda reveals a remarkable paradigmatic shift in America’s engagement with Africa, writes Gilbert Khadiagala.
America’s new strategy toward Africa, released this week amid Secretary of State Blinken’s visit to the continent, offers promise for a newly productive relationship, and not a moment too soon. Global crises such as food insecurity, pandemic diseases and climate change and Africa’s inevitable move in this generation to the world’s center stage make a first real U.S.-Africa partnership vital. Yet a strategy is not a solution. Both American and African peoples and governments now face urgent tasks to seize this moment and jointly frame concrete milestones for the implementation of a new transatlantic partnership, ideally by December’s U.S.-African Leaders’ Summit.
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