A cool Atlantic breeze blew across the dusty port in Praia, Cape Verde's capital, as Mr. Blinken noted that the facility there had been expanded and modernized with nearly $55 million in U.S. aid, making it what he called a much stronger gateway to Africa for us and for so many other countries.
Despite their intense focus on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, Biden administration officials said they remained intent on strengthening ties with African nations, which hold vast economic potential and are a locus of great-power competition with China and Russia.
[
add
]
[
|
|
...
]