Author: Abdirashid Diriye Kalmoy

At the tail-end of his presidency, U.S. President Joe Biden traveled to Angola on Dec. 4 to attend plans to advance the Lobito railway project. This railway line would be a critical project to channel minerals from central and southern African countries. During his visit, Biden met the presidents of Congo, Angola, Zambia and Tanzania, as well as the vice president of Tanzania. The U.S. president’s visit to Africa is overshadowed by a fierce geopolitical contestation over minerals and geopolitical influence in the continent with its arch-nemesis China. In the last few years, we have witnessed great powers competition and…