The first African leaders’ summit of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term will be held next week in Washington, with heads of state from Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal. The news was first reported by African Intelligence and confirmed to Semafor by a person familiar with the plans.

The meeting, which will take place from July 9 -11 and will be attended by Trump, is likely to focus on U.S. economic opportunities in West Africa’s critical minerals sector as well as regional security.

The surprise meeting comes as plans were being finalised for a wider U.S.-Africa summit due to take place in September in New York, though next week’s meeting may seek to capitalise on a period of intense U.S.-Africa diplomacy, following a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between DR Congo and Rwanda signed last week at the White House.

Meanwhile, African leaders are torn in their dealings with the Trump administration, seeking to balance their desperate need for investment with deep frustrations over the U.S. president’s rhetoric and actions toward the continent.

That was the prevailing sentiment in Luanda, Angola, last week among the 3,000 attendees and 12 heads of state at the 17th annual U.S.-Africa Business Summit, hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa, an association of U.S. businesses.

Angola, which hosted the summit, has long been a focus of U.S. investment and Washington’s attention. The port city of Lobito is the entry and exit point of a transcontinental railway bringing minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia to the Atlantic coast.