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The Billion-Dollar Railways Driving Biden’s Last Overseas Trip

On his visit to Angola, the president will stress US support for infrastructure aimed at countering Chinese influence in the region.

The centerpiece of Biden’s visit is the Lobito Corridor, an 800-mile trans-African railway project funded in part by the United States to move vital minerals from the continent’s interior to a port where it can be shipped to Western markets. Biden on Wednesday will travel to the railway’s terminus at Lobito Port, on Angola’s central Atlantic coast.

But the heart of the president’s appearance was his passionate speech at Angola’s National Museum of Slavery, where he recounted the “unimaginable cruelty” of the enslaved person trade and America’s brutal history of slavery. He also spoke of the U.S. Civil War, the fight against segregation and the “still unfinished reckoning with racial injustice in my country today.”

The centerpiece of Biden’s visit is the Lobito Corridor, an 800-mile trans-African railway project funded in part by the United States to move vital minerals from the continent’s interior to a port where it can be shipped to Western markets. Biden on Wednesday will travel to the railway’s terminus at Lobito Port, on Angola’s central Atlantic coast.

But the heart of the president’s appearance was his passionate speech at Angola’s National Museum of Slavery, where he recounted the “unimaginable cruelty” of the enslaved person trade and America’s brutal history of slavery. He also spoke of the U.S. Civil War, the fight against segregation and the “still unfinished reckoning with racial injustice in my country today.”

The centerpiece of Biden’s visit is the Lobito Corridor, an 800-mile trans-African railway project funded in part by the United States to move vital minerals from the continent’s interior to a port where it can be shipped to Western markets. Biden on Wednesday will travel to the railway’s terminus at Lobito Port, on Angola’s central Atlantic coast.

But the heart of the president’s appearance was his passionate speech at Angola’s National Museum of Slavery, where he recounted the “unimaginable cruelty” of the enslaved person trade and America’s brutal history of slavery. He also spoke of the U.S. Civil War, the fight against segregation and the “still unfinished reckoning with racial injustice in my country today.”

 

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