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.
US 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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TK HOST talks with US Special Envoy for Sudan, Tom Perriello, about peace talks aimed at ending the Sudanese civil war, which has led to famine in parts of the country.
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