President Joe Biden pledged $600 million for a multi-country rail project in Africa as one of his final acts as his administration comes to an end. Biden said the continent had been “left behind for much too long” to a group of African leaders. “But not anymore. Africa is the future.”
Biden used his last day of a visit to Angola to travel to a port city of Lobito and tour the Atlantic port terminal that is a planned part of the railway redevelopment.
The project was described as the largest U. S. investment in a train project outside of the United States. The plan calls for the refurbishment of 1,200 miles of train lines connecting the Congo and Zambia and will take years to complete. The project has mutual benefits for both Africa and the U. S. because it will give better access to critical natural resources like minerals such as copper, cobalt and others.