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#Africa: The Biden Administration sidesteps the energy shortfall for 600 millions. .Cliff May, FDD

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

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#Africa: The Biden Administration sidesteps the energy shortfall for 600 millions. .Cliff May, FDD
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/01/04/a-sorry-summit/

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US Africa Leaders Summit, recently in Washington, welcoming leaders of Africa Nations, Sub-Saharan

0:46.0

Dominantly, and greeted by the President and Vice President of the United States, including

0:52.1

festivities at the White House. What is the policy of the Biden administration to the African

1:00.1

troubles? All troubles now come to the Ukraine War, but also to the largest story of food,

1:08.1

commodities, power, and the future. And under the conditions that we now witness in Africa,

1:15.1

in South America, in the global south. I welcome Cliff May, the founder and President of the

1:21.1

Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, writing of this summit recently at the Washington

1:26.1

Times. Cliff, a very good even to you and in a new year with the challenge of Africa.

1:33.1

What is the Biden administration's policy? Can we identify it and was it advanced or spoken

1:40.4

over debated at this summit? Good evening to you. Good evening to you. I don't think we

1:45.3

can identify a policy. I think the summit was an important attempt to make believe there

1:51.0

was a policy. It didn't get much coverage in the press. It got some from the think tanks.

1:58.1

Most people, when they talked about it, talked about the traffic jams nearby because they

2:02.7

closed streets and had barriers and all that sort of thing. Mostly what you saw at the

2:07.2

conference and the various festivities, as you say, surrounding them, including a dinner

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