{"id":17117,"date":"2025-04-03T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/angola-rail-line-offers-clues-to-trumps-africa-policy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:00:32","slug":"angola-rail-line-offers-clues-to-trumps-africa-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/angola-rail-line-offers-clues-to-trumps-africa-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola Rail Line Offers Clues to Trump\u2019s Africa Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An 800-mile rail corridor stretching from Angola\u2019s northern border to the Atlantic Ocean was former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.\u2019s signature project in Africa, meant to counter Chinese influence and reshape America\u2019s engagement with the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When President Trump came into office this year, he quickly moved to dismantle decades of American aid to Africa, raising fears that the United States was pulling back from its commitments. The future of America\u2019s involvement in the rail project was an open question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But this week, the acting U.S. ambassador in Angola, James Story, gave the first indication that the Trump administration was on board with the project, the Lobito Corridor, which is expected to improve America\u2019s access to minerals like cobalt and copper that are critical to the clean-energy transition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Story, who arrived in Angola last October, is leading a delegation of more than a dozen, mostly Western envoys on a three-day publicity tour along the rail line, including visits with local politicians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As Mr. Trump continues to craft his own Africa team, the tour offered clues to how he plans to shape his policy on the continent, and the ways in which it may align with or depart from Mr. Biden\u2019s approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe Trump administration is all about making business to favor the United States,\u201d said Osvaldo Mboco, a professor of international relations at the Technical University of Angola in the capital, Luanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Although no Trump officials from Washington came on the tour, Mr. Story said the administration supported the effort. The purpose, he added, was to show international solidarity, look for investment opportunities and make clear that the United States and its Western allies are not walking away from the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The railway was initially completed in 1931, running from Angola\u2019s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo \u2014 home to the world\u2019s largest cobalt reserves \u2014 to the port city of Lobito on the west coast. China funded the rehabilitation of the line a little more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Under the Biden administration, the United States committed about $4 billion to various projects along the corridor, including refurbishing the rail line, and developing mining and agricultural projects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Biden pitched the corridor as part of America\u2019s new approach to engaging with Africa \u2014 focusing more on commercial partnerships, rather than just aid and extracting natural resources. He saw it as an answer to China\u2019s longtime engagement with African nations, which has resulted in the construction of new cities, airports, highways and shopping centers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Biden administration officials said the railway would entice companies to build manufacturing plants nearby so they could transport goods, and would give local farmers a way to ship their produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is unclear if the Trump administration will champion those broader economic benefits of the rail line or focus squarely on increasing American access to minerals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIs this just about the refurbishment of a rail or is it about investing in telecoms and alternative energy sources and food security,\u201d said Judd Devermont, who was one of Mr. Biden\u2019s top advisers on Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The project\u2019s ambitions already have been affected by some of Mr. Trump\u2019s policies. An initiative meant to teach women better farming techniques, with the hope of increasing agricultural production along the rail line, was shut down after Mr. Trump defunded the United States Agency for International Development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There are some early indications, however, that the Trump administration might be looking for business investments in Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ben Black, the president\u2019s nominee to run the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, which lends billions to overseas projects and has been one of America\u2019s main funders along the Lobito Corridor, has said he wants to take an \u201cinvestment-driven\u201d approach to overseas spending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Adam Cortese, the chief executive of Sun Africa, an American solar energy company with U.S. government-backed projects along the corridor and in Nigeria, said his engagements with Trump officials had been encouraging. The officials have expressed a desire to invest in developing Africa\u2019s energy infrastructure, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey support production as long as it has to do with U.S. companies,\u201d he said, adding that his company\u2019s primary competitors in Africa are Chinese state-owned entities. \u201cThere certainly seems to be a lot of support for increasing U.S. competition with China.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Although Mr. Trump has not explicitly expressed support for the Lobito Corridor project, Ricardo Viegas D\u2019Abreu, Angola\u2019s transportation minister, said this week\u2019s diplomatic mission was a positive signal. Angola\u2019s president has said that strengthening economic ties with the United States is essential to help his oil-rich country grow and diversify its economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe feel that no major disruption has happened even on the transition to this new administration,\u201d Mr. D\u2019Abreu said of the progress on the Lobito project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ultimately, the benefit that Angola and other African nations get from doing business with Mr. Trump will come down to how those countries position themselves, said Mr. Mboco, the international relations professor. They will need to strike deals that include U.S. investment in manufacturing in Africa, rather than allowing Americans to just extract natural resources, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAfrica needs to stop being the poor family member,\u201d Mr. Mboco said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Gilberto Neto<!-- --> contributed reporting from Luanda, Angola. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/02\/world\/africa\/trump-angola-lobito-corridor.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 800-mile rail corridor stretching from Angola\u2019s northern border to the Atlantic Ocean was former President Joseph R. 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