A scheduled visit of the US ambassador to the United Nations seeks engagement from African Union states as Joe Biden fights slide-in relations that are shifting to Moscow and Beijing. Linda Thomas-Greenfield is trying to shift away Africa's pivot to Russia significantly, and recent snubs did not help, according to Republic World.
US Ambassador Visits African Union States
It is part of the White House's attempt at another shot to get more interaction from African countries that are more crucial to the sliding influence in the second-largest continent full of resources.
Last Sunday, the US Mission to United Nations announced that Thomas-Greenfeild would go to Ghana, Mozambique, and Kenya, commencing on January 25. Its goal is to bolster the partnership with present and ex-UN security council members, Today News Africa reported.
The US envoy's visit is on the heels of an earlier tour of 10 days by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in a major US diplomatic drive. She went to Dakar, Senegal, last Wednesday and will visit Zambia and South Africa.
In December, after the U.S.-Africa Leaders' Summit held by the Biden administration, it was announced that the US president would visit Africa in 2023. This would be the first visit to Africa by a US leader in 10 years.
This US Summit's goal is to reset the US-Africa relationship as the continent stated its preference for more money on the table, not promises but in infrastructures and more capital. Claims by the Biden administration that China wants more military muscle, with Russian ties to Mali and the Central African Republic, per Asharo Al-Awsat.
US Seeks Engagement with African Nations
A key message by the US leader during the African summit that was stressed to all attendees totaled 49 leaders. Compared to the former concerns of Washington in the geopolitics of Africa, not these nations are primary, not secondary, members in any discussion concerning them.
Thomas-Greenfield, ex-assistant secretary of state for Africa, will be in Ghana, holding its second year as a member of the Security Council. There on January 25, she will meet women leaders and other sectors.
Next will be another junket to Mozambique, which is beginning its first two-year term as a council member. Those she would meet on January 26-27; will include UN officials, entrepreneurs, US exchange program alumni, and other specialists working with climate change, noted the US mission.
The last stop for the envoy is Kenya on January 28-29, with its position on the council that ended on December 31. Kenya is a vital participant based on the perspective of the US missions headed by the envoy with these concerns, according to her.
These are humanitarian help regarding drought and refugee assistance, highlighting the allegation that the Ukraine conflict is the consequence that led to global food security. But the US envoy will be meeting refugees concerning resettlement and converting the African state to alternative energy.
Though the US ambassador seeks engagement from these African Union states that leaned to Moscow and Beijing's side, another is the US allegedly seeking alliances with these states.