‘Why outcome of U.S. poll won’t affect relations with Africa’
By : From Tope Templer Olaiya, California, United States
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22 March 2024 5:26am WAT
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(FILES) (COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on February 16, 2022 shows former US President Donald Trump during a visit to the border wall near Pharr, Texas on June 30, 2021 and US President Joe Biden during a visit to Germanna Community College in Culpeper, Virginia, on February 10, 2022. - While the stakes could hardly be higher for American democracy, voters are increasingly turned off by the apparently inevitable rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Joe Biden has joked about it, ignored it and suggested it makes him wise. A year out from the US presidential election, the issue of his age just wont go away. Donald Trump was impeached twice. He has been found liable in fraud and sexual abuse lawsuits. He is charged with 91 felonies, accused of recklessly endangering national security, and of conspiring to defraud the United States. Young US voters have been through graduations, new jobs and the end of Covid restrictions since the last presidential election, but next year's likely Trump-Biden rematch has left many Americans in their early 20s with an uneasy sense of deja vu. (Photo by Sergio FLORES and Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
(FILES) (COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on February 16, 2022 shows former US President Donald Trump during a visit to the border wall near Pharr, Texas on June 30, 2021 and US President Joe Biden during a visit to Germanna Community College in Culpeper, Virginia, on February 10, 2022. - While the stakes could hardly be higher for American democracy, voters are increasingly turned off by the apparently inevitable rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Joe Biden has joked about it, ignored it and suggested it makes him wise. A year out from the US presidential election, the issue of his age just wont go away. Donald Trump was impeached twice. He has been found liable in fraud and sexual abuse lawsuits. He is charged with 91 felonies, accused of recklessly endangering national security, and of conspiring to defraud the United States. Young US voters have been through graduations, new jobs and the end of Covid restrictions since the last presidential election, but next year's likely Trump-Biden rematch has left many Americans in their early 20s with an uneasy sense of deja vu. (Photo by Sergio FLORES and Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
Former US President Donald Trump during a visit to the border wall near Pharr, Texas on June 30, 2021 and US President Joe Biden during a visit to Germanna Community College in Culpeper, Virginia, on February 10, 2022. (Photo by Sergio FLORES and Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
Amid uncertainties over foreign policy shift in America’s engagement with Africa as a fall-out of November’s presidential election in the United States, the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement (PAC-ADE) has allayed fears over the outcome, assuring that extant economic, social and cultural ties would not be affected.
Speaking yesterday at the opening of this year’s African Diaspora Investment Symposium (ADIS24), organised by the African Diaspora Network (ADN) at Silicon Valley, California, Executive Director of PAC-ADE, Deniece Laurent-Mantey, restated that diplomatic relations and engagement with Africa had been institutionalised.
Explaining why stakeholders on the continent should not nurse fears, Laurent-Mantey added that PAC-ADE, an offshoot of the 2022 U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit, had been institutionalised in the United States Department of State.
On exploring the impact of PAC-ADE, a council member and president of PepsiCo Foundation, C.D. Glin, charged to come up with practical initiatives that can benefit Africa in the areas of education, trade and investment, technology and critical knowledge transfer to bridge the skills gap on the continent.
