By using this site, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Accept
Independent News ExpressIndependent News Express
  • Home
  • International
    InternationalShow More
    United Nations
    4th International Conference On Financing For Development Delivers Renewed Hope And Action For Sustainable Development
    2 days ago
    The African Development Bank and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) scale up drive for sustainable urbanization in Africa
    AfDB, UN-Habitat Scale Up Drive For Sustainable Urbanisation In Africa
    3 days ago
    UN
    North Africa: Green Climate Fund Approves Record $300m For FAO-designed Projects In Papua New Guinea, Saint Lucia, The Sahel
    4 days ago
    UNICEF
    How Wars Across Middle East, North Africa Affecting Children – UNICEF
    4 days ago
    UNDP
    UN Development Programme Welcomes Historic Deal On Sustainable Development Even Amidst Global Turmoil
    5 days ago
  • Africa
    Africa
    Show More
    Top News
    ‘Waiting Times For UK Visas Are Coming Down’
    3 years ago
    Ghana: We Will Confront Successfully Difficulties Facing Us – President Akufo-Addo
    2 years ago
    Conference On Biodiversity Gets Underway In Addis Ababa
    2 years ago
    Latest News
    Ooni’s Wife, Olori Temitope Enitan-Ogunwusi Takes Ile Ife Royalty To ADWIN Launch In Cote d’Ivoire
    3 weeks ago
    Independent UN Body Finds Systemic Racism Against Africans And People Of African Descent
    4 weeks ago
    Public Exit: Why South Africa Businesses Are Moving To Private Cloud
    1 month ago
    Cameroon Tops List Of World’s Most Neglected Displacement Crises
    1 month ago
  • Corporate News
    • Media Outreach
  • Politics
    Politics
    Show More
    Top News
    Obi To Tinubu: I Can Trace My Background, But Nigerians Can’t Trace Yours
    2 years ago
    Ukraine President Zelenskyy Under Attack Over Congratulatory Tweet To Tinubu
    2 years ago
    Osun State Erupts In Jubilation, As Supreme Court Affirms Adeleke As The Governor
    2 years ago
    Latest News
    Lagos LG Poll: Tunde Disco/Ganiyu Obasa Intensify Campaign In Agege
    1 week ago
    PHOTOS: Vinod Obasa Joins Other Lagos APC LG Candidates At Sanwo-Olu’s Reception
    2 weeks ago
    Lagos Lawmaker Praises Tinubu For Helping Nigeria Breathe Again
    4 weeks ago
    LG Election: Stakeholders Appeal To APC Not To Allow Chairmen Run For 3rd term
    2 months ago
  • News
    • Agriculture
    • Breaking News
    • Tech
    • Maritime
    • Crime
    • Art & Culture
    News
    Show More
    Top News
    Ondo Governor, Akeredolu Begins Construction Of First Flyover In Akure
    2 years ago
    Celebration Of Life: Reverend Adewumi Jegede Of Later House Of God Assembly Buried Amid Pomp
    1 year ago
    Pa Abdulfatah Amoo Ayanwale
    Pa Ayanwale Dies At 76, Fidau Prayers Holds 8 August
    2 years ago
    Latest News
    CFE Foundation Seeks Sponsors to Sustain Humanitarian Programs Amidst Funding Challenges
    2 days ago
    2025 World Drug Day: CIKDAS, Flour Mills, Planet Bottling Company Partner To Combat Drug Abuse Amongst Youths
    5 days ago
    D2D Satellite Comms: Nigeria’s Space Research Agency Signs MoU With Chinese Firm, Galaxy Space
    2 weeks ago
    Substance Use Prevention In Focus As NDLEA, UNODC Unveil 2025 World Drug Day Activities
    3 weeks ago
  • Entertainment
    • Comedy
    • Movies
    • Music
    • Television
    • Concert & Events
    Entertainment
    Show More
    Top News
    YouTube Partners 8th All-Africa Music Awards 
    3 years ago
    GOtv
    GOtv Channels To Be Renumbered for Better Viewing Experience
    2 years ago
    New Grammy Rule Addresses Artificial Intelligence, Says “Only Human Creators” Eligible For Awards
    2 years ago
    Latest News
    Local Content Powers African Dreams
    2 days ago
    The Drama Returns As BBNaija ‘No Loose Guard’ Reunion Premieres June 23
    2 weeks ago
    You Can’t Fake it — James Omekwe On MultiChoice’s Impact On African Filmmaking
    4 weeks ago
    Jkenova and Ellacentric Exit Nigerian Idol Season 10 In Emotional Farewell
    4 weeks ago
  • Lifestyle
    • Fashion
    • Love & Life
    • Food & Drink
    • Travel & Tourism
    • Relationship
    • Sex
    Lifestyle
    Show More
    Top News
    Cultural Fusion: Omoge Anago/Iroko Day Festival Bridges Nigeria & Benin Republic
    9 months ago
    African Catholic Bishops Converge in Lagos for Landmark 50th anniversary of the Pan African Committee for Social Communications (CEPACS)
    African Catholic Bishops Converge in Lagos For Landmark 50th CEPACS Anniversary
    2 years ago
    Africa Tech Festival
    Africa Tech Festival Unveils Strategic Themes For 2025 Event,
    3 weeks ago
    Latest News
    Noble Call to Service: Inside the Induction of 104 New Knights of St. Mulumba
    3 weeks ago
    Joining The Knighthood Brings You Closer To God -Sir Eva Njemanze
    3 weeks ago
    Africa Tech Festival Unveils Strategic Themes For 2025 Event,
    3 weeks ago
    Lagos SWAN Joins UN To Celebrate World Nutrition Month At Unilag Confab
    1 month ago
  • Business
    • Banking & Finance
    • Oil & Gas
    BusinessShow More
    Unity Bank
    Unity Bank Empowers Young Entrepreneurs With ₦16M Business Grant
    3 days ago
    NNPCL Board Accused Of Planning Lavish Party In Rwanda Amidst N210tn Financial Scandal
    2 weeks ago
    Can the African Energy Bank Transform the Continent’s Refining and Downstream Future?
    3 weeks ago
    Lagos Will Continue To Lead Initiatives That Accelerate Economic Diversification – Sanwo-Olu
    1 month ago
    Afreximbank
    Afreximbank Reports Strong Performance For Q1 2025 In Line With expectations
    2 months ago
  • Health
    Health
    Show More
    Top News
    South Africa: North West Health Denies Reports Of Severe Medication Shortages In Facilities
    3 years ago
    Early Detection Helps Curing Childhood Cancers, Says Pediatric Oncologist
    2 years ago
    Oxygen Therapy Improves Heart Function In Patients With Long COVID
    2 years ago
    Latest News
    Online Education Can Enhance Clinical Guideline Use By Over 50% 
    3 weeks ago
    The Hidden Lifeline – Blood Security And Africa’s Health Agenda By Dr Allan Pamba
    3 weeks ago
    Apepa or Arterial Blockage? The Urgency of Self-Care After 45 By Babafemi Ojudu
    1 month ago
    Roche Launches Diagnostics Operations In Nigeria,
    1 month ago
  • More
    • Sports
    • Aviation/Transportation
    • Deliverance Hour
    • Industry & Labour
    • Insurance
    • Interview
    • Judiciary
    • Metro
    • Opinion
    • Property
    • Religious
    • Romance
    • Science & Discovery
Reading: Africa Leaders Summit: US To Strengthening Partnerships To Meet Shared Priorities
Share
Notification Show More
Aa
Independent News ExpressIndependent News Express
Aa
  • Home
  • International
  • Africa
  • Corporate News
  • Politics
  • News
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Business
  • Health
  • More
Search
  • Home
  • International
  • Africa
  • Corporate News
    • Media Outreach
  • Politics
  • News
    • Agriculture
    • Breaking News
    • Tech
    • Maritime
    • Crime
    • Art & Culture
  • Entertainment
    • Comedy
    • Movies
    • Music
    • Television
    • Concert & Events
  • Lifestyle
    • Fashion
    • Love & Life
    • Food & Drink
    • Travel & Tourism
    • Relationship
    • Sex
  • Business
    • Banking & Finance
    • Oil & Gas
  • Health
  • More
    • Sports
    • Aviation/Transportation
    • Deliverance Hour
    • Industry & Labour
    • Insurance
    • Interview
    • Judiciary
    • Metro
    • Opinion
    • Property
    • Religious
    • Romance
    • Science & Discovery
Have an existing account? Sign In
Follow US
  • Advertise
© 2022 Foxiz News Network. Ruby Design Company. All Rights Reserved.
Independent News Express > Blog > Africa > Africa Leaders Summit: US To Strengthening Partnerships To Meet Shared Priorities
Africa

Africa Leaders Summit: US To Strengthening Partnerships To Meet Shared Priorities

Last updated: 2022/12/16 at 7:50 AM
3 years ago
Share
SHARE

The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, from December 13-15 in Washington DC, highlighted the U.S. commitment to expanding and deepening our partnership with African countries, institutions, and people. 

Our world is quickly changing, and U.S. engagement in Africa must evolve accordingly.  African leadership and contributions are essential to addressing today’s pressing challenges and achieving shared priorities.  The Biden-Harris Administration is deepening longstanding areas of cooperation while revitalizing and expanding our partnership to better meet the shared challenges and opportunities of our era.  

On December 15, the U.S. and African Union delegations released a Vision Statement outlining the contours of this strengthened partnership.

At the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, President Biden and Vice President Harris announced new initiatives that will empower African institutions and citizens.  We reaffirmed our resolve to work collaboratively with African governments, businesses, and publics to strengthen people-to-people ties, ensure more inclusive and responsive global institutions, build a strong and sustainable global economy, foster new technology and innovation, strengthen health systems and prepare for the next pandemic, tackle the food security and climate crises, support democracy and human rights, and advance peace and security.

- Advertisement -
Ad imageAd image

The Biden-Harris Administration plans to invest at least $55 billion in Africa over the next three years, working closely with Congress.  
We are dedicated to following through on these commitments and are establishing a new Special Presidential Representative for U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Implementation to coordinate these efforts.  President Biden announced his intent to name for this role Ambassador Johnnie Carson, former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and Ambassador to Kenya, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

New investments and policy initiatives highlighted at the Summit include:

People-to-People Ties

  • Establishment of a New Diaspora Council: The President issued an executive order (EO) directing the Secretary of State to establish the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States (PAC-ADE).  The PAC-ADE will deepen the dialogue between U.S. officials and the African Diaspora in the United States, as described in the U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa.  The EO encourages efforts to advance equity and opportunity for the African Diaspora in the United States and strengthen cultural, social, political, and economic ties between African communities, the global African Diaspora, and the United States.
  • Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Expansion: Vice President Harris announced that the Administration plans to work with Congress to provide over $100 million toward YALI over multiple years to support innovative, diverse young African women and men to excel in a 21st century economy and catalyze transformational change in their communities, countries, and continent.  The YALI expansion seeks to harness the support of the private sector, the Diaspora, and bilateral partners to facilitate networking, expand digital literacy, accelerate gender equality and women’s leadership, advance transparent governance, foster a vibrant civil society, and increase economic opportunities.

Global Governance and Diplomatic Engagement

  • Support for G20 Membership: The United States will support and work to realize greater and long overdue African representation in international institutions, including supporting the African Union to join the G20 as a permanent member.  Home to over a billion people, Africa must have a more prominent voice in global conversations.  This builds upon President Biden’s September announcement of support for permanent seats in the United Nations Security Council for countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
  • Travel to Africa: President Biden announced that he, Vice President Harris, the First Lady, the Second Gentleman, and several members of the Cabinet intend to travel to Africa in 2023, demonstrating our commitment to African countries and citizens.

Trade, Investment, and Inclusive Economic Growth

  • Supporting African Resilience and Recovery: President Biden highlighted that his Administration is committed to working closely with Congress to lend up to $21 billion through the International Monetary Fund for low and middle-income countries, which will support African resilience and recovery efforts.  The Biden-Harris Administration is also calling for all bilateral and relevant private creditors to provide meaningful debt relief so countries can regain their footing after years of extreme stress.

  • Memorandum of Understanding between the United States Government and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat: The United States Government and the AfCFTA Secretariat signed a Memorandum of Understanding to expand engagement to promote equitable, sustainable, and inclusive trade; boost competitiveness; and attract investment to the continent.  Once fully implemented, the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area will create a combined continent-wide market of 1.3 billion people and $3.4 trillion, which would be the fifth-largest economy in the world.

  • The First Regional Multi-Sectoral Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compacts:  MCC announced its first regional compacts, totaling $504 million, with the Governments of Benin and Niger, with additional contributions of $15 million from Benin and Niger.  The compacts support regional economic integration, trade, and cross-border collaboration.  Since the start of the Biden-Harris Administration, MCC has also signed agreements with the Governments of The Gambia, Lesotho, and Malawi totaling $675 million.

  •  The agency is currently working in 14 African countries with more than $3.0 billion in active compact and threshold programs and approximately $2.5 billion in the pipeline.  On Tuesday, MCC announced that The Gambia and Togo are eligible to develop their first compacts, Senegal is eligible to develop a concurrent regional compact, and Mauritania is eligible for a threshold program.
  • U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC): DFC announced $369 million in new investments across Africa in food security, renewable energy infrastructure, and health projects, including a $100 million transaction with Mirova SunFunder for the Mirova Gigaton Fund to support clean energy across Africa.  DFC has more than $11 billion in commitments across Africa.

Technology and Innovation

  • The Initiative on Digital Transformation with Africa (DTA): At the U.S.-Africa Business Forum, President Biden launched the DTA, a new initiative to expand digital access and literacy across the continent.  Working with Congress, this new initiative intends to invest over $350 million and facilitate over $450 million in financing for Africa, in line with the African Union’s Digital Transformation Strategy.
  • First African Countries to Sign the Artemis Accords:  On December 13, Nigeria and Rwanda became the first African countries to sign the Artemis Accords, which facilitate collaboration and establish principles grounded in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty for safe, sustainable, and responsible exploration and use of outer space.

Health 

  • Investing in the Health Workforce to Build More Resilient Health Systems:  As part of the Global Health Worker Initiative, the Administration plans to work with Congress to invest $1.33 billion annually from 2022 to 2024 in health workforce in the Africa region, for a total of at least $4 billion by Fiscal Year 2025, to help our African partners close the gap in health workers, including clinicians, community health and care workers, and public health professionals.
  •  
  • Partnering to Build Stronger Health Systems and Strengthen Global Health Security: Since the start of the Biden-Harris Administration, the United States has invested and committed to provide $782 million in global health security programs to work with partner countries in Africa to close major gaps outlined in their national action plans for health security and to build resilient health systems in critical technical areas.  The United States announced $215 million in new funding to address the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. 
  • Partnership to Accelerate Regional Manufacturing: The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the President’s Malaria Initiative, and DFC also announced plans to accelerate regional manufacturing capacity for vaccines, tests, and therapeutics, including PEPFAR’s plans to procure 15 million HIV tests produced by African manufacturers by 2025 and to shift at least 2 million patients on HIV treatments to use African-made products by 2030.

Food Security

  • Strengthening Food Security Partnerships and Responding to the Need for Emergency Food Security Assistance:  The U.S. Government and the African Union announced a strategic partnership and joint statement focused on transformational investments for resilient food systems and diversified supply chain markets.  In addition, President Biden announced $2 billion of new emergency humanitarian assistance for Africa, building on over $11 billion in recent announcements of food security assistance.

Climate Change

  • Support for Climate Adaptation and Resilience: At COP27 in Egypt, President Biden announced U.S. plans to work with Congress to provide over $150 million in new funding to address climate adaptation in Africa under the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE), supporting early warning systems, adaptation finance, climate risk insurance, and climate-resilient food systems.  This investment will also galvanize global public and private investment in African clean energy infrastructure.  This year, MCC’s compacts in Benin and Niger, Lesotho, and Malawi included over $150 million in new climate adaptation funding.

Democracy and Governance

  • African Democratic and Political Transitions (ADAPT): President Biden announced the new ADAPT initiative, which reaffirms the U.S. commitment to engage with complex political transitions in Africa and demonstrate U.S. Government support to governments and civil society at critical moments.  Working with Congress, over three years, the Administration will invest $75 million for this initiative to counter democratic backsliding in partnership with regional bodies, governments, and civil society in support of durable political transitions.

Peace and Security

  • 21st Century Partnership for African Security (21PAS): President Biden announced that his Administration is working with Congress to provide $100 million for a new partnership to incentivize and bolster African efforts to implement and sustain security sector capacity and reforms.  This three-year pilot program is designed to allow the United States and African partners, including civil society, to sync, share, and support solutions to security challenges.

Source: The White House.

You Might Also Like

Ooni’s Wife, Olori Temitope Enitan-Ogunwusi Takes Ile Ife Royalty To ADWIN Launch In Cote d’Ivoire

Independent UN Body Finds Systemic Racism Against Africans And People Of African Descent

Public Exit: Why South Africa Businesses Are Moving To Private Cloud

Cameroon Tops List Of World’s Most Neglected Displacement Crises

ECOWAS Marathon Race Director Okon Congratulates Commission on 50th Anniversary

TAGGED: Africa Leaders Summit
INadminNG December 16, 2022 December 16, 2022
Share This Article
Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Whatsapp LinkedIn Telegram Email Print
Previous Article The Language Of Christmas Is Love By Most Rev. Badejo
Next Article UK Unveils Programmes For Ecosystem Restoration In Africa, Asia
about us

Independent News Express (iNews Express), a publication of 4Ds Nigeria Limited, is birthed out of the desires of the founding fathers to report News as it is.

We value Professionalism, Excellence, Service, Creativity and Integrity.

The Company

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy & Policy

Quick Links

  • Advertise with us
  • Newsletters
  • Deal

Categories

Find Us on Socials

© Independent News Express. All Rights Reserved.
Welcome Back!

Sign in to your account

Lost your password?