13News Now, December 4, 2024
They're known as America's first black family – The Tuckers of Hampton. They are descendants of two of the first Africans forced to English North America in 1619. The Tucker family was recognized by President Joe Biden for their commitment to furthering relations between the U.S. and Africa, during the President’s historic first trip to the country this week.
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases a YouTube video of and an article excerpt about United States President Joe Biden's visit to Angola in December 2024.
This post also showcases a YouTube video of a map of Africa
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Thanks to President Biden for that historic visit to Africa and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to the publishers of these showcased videos on YouTube.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/12/youtube-video-of-map-of-africa-video-of.html for a related pancocojams post entitled "YouTube Video Of The Map Of Africa & Video Of And Information About The First Enslaved Africans In The United States."
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - African Countries and Their Location/Africa Political Map/Africa Continent/List of African Countries
World Map, March 21, 2019
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Note: This map misspells the name of the West African nation of "Sierra Leone".
Click https://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-in-africa/ for a list of the names of the 54 nations in Africa.
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SOME INFORMATION ABOUT ANGOLA
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola
"Angola,[a] officially the Republic of Angola,[b] is a
country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest
Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country in both total area and population and
is the seventh-largest country in Africa. It is bordered by Namibia to the
south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east,
and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Angola has an exclave province, the
province of Cabinda, that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. The capital and most populous city is Luanda.
Angola has been inhabited since the Paleolithic Age. After the Bantu expansion reached the region, states were formed by the 13th century and organised into confederations. The Kingdom of Kongo ascended to achieve hegemony among the other kingdoms from the 14th century. Portuguese explorers established relations with Kongo in 1483. To the south were the kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba, with the Ovimbundu kingdoms further south, and the Mbunda Kingdom in the east.[8][9]
The Portuguese began colonising the coast in the 16th century. Kongo fought three wars against the Portuguese, ending in the Portuguese conquest of Ndongo. The banning of the slave trade in the 19th century severely disrupted Kongo's undiversified economic system and European settlers gradually began to establish their presence in the interior of the region. The Portuguese colony that became Angola did not achieve its present borders until the early 20th century and experienced the strong resistance from the native groups such as the Cuamato, the Kwanyama, and the Mbunda. After a protracted anti-colonial struggle (1961–1974), Angola achieved independence in 1975 as a one-party Republic, but the country descended into a devastating civil war the same year, between the ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba; the insurgent National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, an originally Maoist and later anti-communist group supported by the United States and South Africa; the militant organization National Liberation Front of Angola, backed by Zaire; and the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda seeking the independence of the Cabinda exclave, also backed by Zaire.
Since the end of the civil war in 2002, Angola has emerged as a relatively stable constitutional republic, and its economy is among the fastest-growing in the world, with China, the European Union, and the United States being the country's largest investment and trade partners.[10][11][12] However, the economic growth is highly uneven, with most of the nation's wealth concentrated in a disproportionately small part of the population as most Angolans have a low standard of living; life expectancy is among the lowest in the world, while infant mortality is among the highest.[13]
Angola is a member of the United Nations, African Union, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, and the Southern African Development Community. As of 2023, the Angolan population is estimated at 37.2 million.[14] Angolan culture reflects centuries of Portuguese influence, namely the predominance of the Portuguese language and of the Catholic Church, intermingled with a variety of indigenous customs and traditions."...
AN ARTICLE EXCERPT ABOUT PRESIDENT BIDEN'S DECEMBER 2024 VISIT TO ANGOLA
From https://www.usip.org/publications/2024/12/angola-biden-touts-lobito-corridor-and-future-us-africa-partnership In Angola, Biden Touts Lobito Corridor And Future US-African Partnership"
Wednesday, December 4, 2024,
"President Joe Biden traveled to Angola this week, the first
time a sitting U.S. head of state has been to the African continent since 2015
and the first-ever trip by an American president to Angola. Biden is looking to
build on the growing U.S.-Angola relationship and to secure U.S. access to
Africa’s critical minerals, which power everyday consumer technologies and
beyond. China has long dominated that market, making the U.S. reliant on its
principal strategic competitor for these key resources. The U.S. and its G7
partners launched the Lobito Corridor project — spanning Angola, the Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Zambia — in 2023 to enhance its access to these
minerals and spur local and regional economic development and connectivity.
USIP’s Tom Sheehy explains what Biden hoped to accomplish in Angola, how the Lobito Corridor projects factored into the trip and how Angola has balanced its relations with China, Russia and the United States.
Of the 54 African countries, why did Biden choose to visit Angola, and what did he hope to accomplish with this trip?
Sheehy: The U.S.-Angola relationship has made significant
progress over the last decade or so, to the point that Angola is one of the
strongest U.S. partners in Africa. This is quite an impressive development
considering that the U.S. armed rebels fighting against the Soviet-backed
Angolan government during the Cold War. Angola is an encouraging story of a
once-war torn country that is now peaceful.
Ahead of the trip, the White House noted several priority issues of focus, including economic growth, food security, global health, security cooperation and climate — all of which the U.S. supports through various programs. While Angola has made some progress on some of these fronts, more could be done to promote democracy and transparency, among other things.
The Lobito Corridor project — a major three-country infrastructure project that the U.S. is promoting in partnership with Angola, the DRC and Zambia — is the highlight of the visit. A key component of the project is connecting rail service among the three countries to the Port of Lobito on Angola’s Atlantic coastline. The project has become a central piece of U.S.-Africa policy in recent years. Among its goals are to promote local economic development and regional economic integration, while helping the U.S. to diversify its critical mineral supply chains, moving away from dependence on China for copper, cobalt and other minerals essential to the U.S. economy and defense industrial base.
The Angolan government has had growing economic ties with China for two decades now. But Angola is interested in broadening its commercial partnerships, especially with the United States. Angola’s openness to the United States as a commercial partner is a big reason why President Biden is visiting the country.
A U.S. president has never set foot in Angola, so this is a historic visit that hopefully will bring the relationship to new levels."...
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