Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is kicking off her 11-day trip to Africa with a promise that America is committed to the continent through good times and bad.
“The United States is all in on Africa, and all inAfrica,” Yellen will tell a group of women entrepreneurs tomorrow in Dakar, Senegal, in a speech meant to set the tone of the trip.
“The United States is here as a partner to help Africa realize its massive economic potential at home and advance its growing leadership abroad.”with China’s vice premier Liu He, where both leaders tried to lower the temperature in bilateral relations and pledged better communications for the sake of the global economy.
But she’ll also acknowledge the hardships -- and historical wrongs – Africans have suffered on America’s path to prosperity, starting with the forced journey of enslaved people to America’s shores., a UNESCO World Heritage site that served as a slave trading post in West Africa.Yellen’s trip to Africa will be shaded by high-profile visits from officials from the two countries – China and Russia – whose influence she is trying to check.
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