Joe Biden’s first and last trip to Africa as president wrapped up in a port city in Angola. It’s the end of an 800 mile train line connecting the port to massive mineral deposits in Central Africa. The U.S. and other Western countries are raising billions to upgrade the rail line, a move that is…
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Kolwezi has some of the world’s largest copper and cobalt reserves and that makes it a key location at the heart of the U.S. and China’s jostle for mineral supremacy on the African continent. (Image credit: Junior Kannah)
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Nigeria air strikes: Tudunbiri village continues to mourn dozens of deaths and cope with injuries one year later on We look at the impact of mercury poisoning caused by illegal mining in southwestern Ghana And how easy is it for you to travel to another African country? 00:01 Intro 00:56 The tragedy of Tudunbiri, a year on, 08:22…
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On the first trip of his Presidency to Africa, President Biden went to the National Slavery museum to remember the hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans taken from Angola to the U.S.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7de2ef7dffc123e32c1926ee31ecc763c3bff560/519_514_5398_3239/master/5398.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8c0c2c40ad7f28b55ca5df71eb0d011aUS president remembers ‘stolen men and women and children brought to our shores’ and lauds American investment in country Joe Biden addressed America’s history of enslavement in a speech on Tuesday at Angola’s National Museum of Slavery, calling it “our nation’s original sin” during a trip in which he also lauded recent US investment in…
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US President Biden is in Angola for what is likely to be the final foreign trip of his presidency. It’s his first visit to Sub- Saharan Africa and it’s part of a promise the president made, during the US-Africa Leaders Summit in 2022, to travel to the continent. But, it comes almost at the end…
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https://gdb.voanews.com/02990000–0aff-0242–4395–08dac58b9c4b_cx0_cy7_cw0_w800_h450.jpegHossein Ronaghi, a civil rights activist in Iran, has been holding sit-ins across Tehran with his lips sewn shut in solidarity with the demands of Kianoush Sanjari, another outspoken government critic and former journalist who jumped to his death from a building earlier this month in protest against Iran’s authoritarian rulers. Ronaghi was once again…
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