LUANDA, Angola
United States of America's President, Joe Biden pledged greater American investment in the African continent during a visit to Angola on Tuesday.
It was the first visit to Angola by a US president.
Saying the United States "is all in on Africa," Biden promoted billions of dollars in commitments to Angola during his trip and he visited a slavery museum, where he sought to acknowledge the human trafficking that once linked the two nations.
In particular, Biden pledged more investment in the Lobito Corridor railway project.
The project is a rail link between Lobito on Angola's Atlantic coast, the Copperbelt in Zambia, and the cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
It would connect resource rich central Africa with an Atlantic port.
Angolan President Joao Lourenco said Biden's visit was a key turning point in US-Angola relations, which date back to the Cold War.
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