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December 14, 2024
FACT SHEET: CELEBRATING U.S.-AFRICA PARTNERSHIP TWO YEARS AFTER THE 2022
U.S.-AFRICA LEADERS SUMMIT
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In the two years since the December 2022 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the
Biden-Harris Administration significantly expanded engagement and partnership
with African nations, driven by the conviction that the future of Africa and the
United States depends on what we can achieve together. At the Summit, the
United States pledged to invest $55 billion in Africa over three years. We have
surpassed that goal – the Administration has committed and spent over $65
billion in Africa since the Summit. These investments have enabled the
Administration, together with African partners, to accelerate development
progress, advance trans-continental infrastructure, expand trade and economic
opportunities, and support African-led efforts on conservation, climate
adaptation, and a just energy transition.
But the achievements go beyond numbers, underpinned by our belief that solving
global challenges requires African leadership and African partnership. The
United States championed—and ultimately helped secure—the African Union’s
permanent membership in the G20 and announced our support for creating two
permanent United Nations (UN) Security Council seats for African states. Since
the Summit, we have laid out a vision alongside Kenya to help developing
countries facing mounting debt burdens. Our partnerships enhanced food security
and helped build more sustainable and resilient food systems, improved
governance and security, and advanced shared public health goals. We catalyzed
landmark diaspora-driven engagement, fostered an inclusive and resilient African
digital ecosystem, and made strides to promote gender equality and women’s
empowerment.
High-Level Engagements
Throughout the Biden-Harris administration, President Biden has prioritized
high-level engagement with African countries and partners.
Following the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in 2022, President Biden directed an
unprecedented pace of senior-level U.S. Government visits to the continent.
Twenty Cabinet Members and leaders of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies
have visited the region since the Summit, with visits centered on deepening
partnerships with African countries, institutions, and people. In March and
April 2023, Vice President Harris visited Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia, where she
announced more than $8 billion in public and private sector investment
commitments towards climate and food security, women’s empowerment, and digital
inclusion across Africa.
In May 2024, President Biden then hosted President Ruto of Kenya for a State
Visit and Dinner, the first State Visit of an African head of state since
2008. During that visit, which highlighted 60 years of official U.S.-Kenyan
partnership, President Biden announced a slew of deliverables to improve
economic opportunities for both our peoples, strengthen democratic resilience
and safeguard human rights, and bolster our work together on a range of pressing
issues, including climate and health.
In December 2024, President Biden traveled to the continent, becoming the
first-ever U.S. president to visit Angola and the first sitting President to
visit sub-Saharan Africa since 2015. During the visit, President Biden spoke
about the past horrors of slavery and its legacy, while welcoming a bright
future of deepening collaboration between the United States and the continent.
He announced more than $1 billion in additional humanitarian funding and
co-hosted a Summit on the Lobito Trans-Africa Corridor, underscoring the
importance of private sector investments, inclusive economic growth, and
sustainable development. One year earlier, President Biden had hosted President
Lourenço of Angola for an Oval Office meeting. President Biden’s historic trip
to Angola topped off significant engagement with the continent throughout the
entire Biden-Harris administration.
Trade and Investment
The Administration harnessed the dynamism of people from across the African
continent and throughout the United States to expand prosperity on both sides of
the Atlantic. In the past two years, the United States has supported and helped
close 1,385 new deals for a total estimated value of $62.6 billion in new
two-way trade and investment between the United States and African countries.
This represents a more than five-fold increase in the value of closed deals over
the two years preceding the Summit. Illustrative highlights of these trade and
investment initiatives include:
1. The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has
investments of over $13 billion in more than 300 projects across 36
countries in Africa. Since the Summit, DFC has committed over $5.3 billion
to new projects in Africa in key sectors such as energy, healthcare,
infrastructure, mineral resources, and support for small businesses.
2. Since the Summit, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has funded
24 project preparation activities to advance the implementation of over $7
billion in digital connectivity, clean energy, and healthcare
infrastructure projects on the continent. In 2024, USTDA arranged 10
reverse trade missions and workshops focused on regulatory convergence for
healthcare products, transportation, green hydrogen development,
cybersecurity, methane abatement, and sustainable energy, connecting
African public and private sector representatives with the latest U.S.
technologies, services, and financing solutions.
3. Since 2022, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) has
strengthened partnerships across Africa, approving approximately $4 billion
in authorizations for sub-Saharan Africa. This includes transactions
across a wide variety of sectors including two of the largest renewable
energy projects in EXIM’s history, aircrafts, civil works infrastructure,
and radio equipment.
4. In fiscal year (FY) 2023, the EXIM Board of Directors approved a $281
million transaction to support the export of several Boeing 737 MAX 8
aircraft to Ethiopian Airlines Group. This transaction supported 1,600
U.S. jobs across Indiana, North Carolina, and Washington. In FY 2024, the
EXIM Board of Directors approved an additional transaction of more than
$456 million for Ethiopian Airlines for the purchase of five Boeing
aircraft, supporting an estimated 2,200 new U.S. jobs in North Carolina,
Ohio, and Washington.
5. Since 2022, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has invested almost
$2.4 billion through agreements with African partner countries who have
demonstrated their commitment to good governance, democratic values, and
investing in their people. Funding is expanding energy markets, furthering
private sector energy generation, enhancing farmers’ supply chain
integration, and improving education access to increase long-term
employment opportunities.
6. Prosper Africa funded and supported several initiatives to boost two-way
trade and investment for key markets in Kenya, South Africa, and Morocco,
to include the “Why Kenya, Why Africa” Roadshow in New York, San Francisco,
and Chicago, the launch of Atlanta Phambili with South African business and
government leaders in Atlanta, and the U.S.-Morocco Venture Capital Forum.
Prosper Africa also provided technical assistance to Togo-based Caisse
Régionale de Refinancement Hypothécaire, supporting a $275 million housing
deal with Bank of America.
7. At the Summit, Prosper Africa announced the Catalytic Investment Facility,
which provides first-loss and operational funding support to 10 African
asset managers to mobilize $600 million from private investors, to deploy
into African tech startups. To date, $93 million has been raised by the 10
African asset managers, and $44 million has been deployed into 61 startups
throughout the continent.
8. In September 2024, Prosper Africa announced a catalytic pooled fund to
drive social investment. In partnership with the Children’s Investment
Fund Foundation, and in support of the Africa Venture Philanthropy
Alliance, the fund aims to pool $200 million of catalytic capital over the
next five years from African and global philanthropies and government
donors. This capital is expected to leverage up to $2 billion in private
capital.
9. Prosper Africa provided a $1.275 million grant to the Liquidity and
Sustainability Facility (LSF) to cover operational costs of LSF’s work
enhancing trading liquidity for African countries and lowering the cost of
financing. LSF builds free and transparent capital markets in Africa and
provides investors with an investible benchmark for evaluating the
performance of African sovereign debt instruments such as the IBoxx LSF USD
African Sovereign index, in conjunction with Standard & Poor’s.
10. The Small Business Administration (SBA) provided 34 small businesses with
export financing that supported approximately $185.7 million in export
sales involving the African continent from December 2023 to October 2024.
Building on the SBA Administrator’s visit to Cote d’Ivoire and Togo in
2023, SBA also undertook new activities in 2024 to connect members of the
African diaspora in the United States with businesses in both continents.
11. In November 2023 and July 2024, President Biden reiterated his strong
support for the reauthorization and modernization of the African Growth and
Opportunity Act (AGOA) to deepen trade relations between the U.S. and
Africa, strengthen regional integration, and realize Africa’s immense
economic potential. In 2023, AGOA imports totaled $9.7 billion and
supported tens of thousands of jobs in the United States and Africa.
Infrastructure
President Biden’s flagship G7+ initiative, the Partnership for Global
Infrastructure and Investment (PGI), advances strategic, values-driven, and
high-standard infrastructure, investment, and sustainable development in low-
and middle-income countries—with Africa as a key continent of focus. At the G7
Summit in June, leaders celebrated progress toward PGI’s ambitious goal of
mobilizing $600 billion by 2027 in global infrastructure investments that will
make a difference in people’s lives around the world, strengthen and diversify
our supply chains, and advance shared national security interests. During his
historic trip to Angola December 2-4, President Biden co-hosted a Summit on the
Lobito Trans-Africa Corridor, bringing together leaders from the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia, as well as the Africa Finance
Corporation. Leaders affirmed their commitment to investing in infrastructure
that will one day connect the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to expand economic
growth and sustainable development across the region. More information on
PGI/Lobito Trans-Africa Corridor can be found here.
Conservation, Climate Adaptation, and a Just Energy Transition
Many of the countries that are most vulnerable to climate change are in Africa.
The Biden-Harris Administration has marshalled unprecedented resources to
bolster climate resilience and protect development progress. During her 2023
trip to the African continent, Vice President Harris worked with African
partners to galvanize more than $7 billion in public and private sector climate
adaptation, resilience, and mitigation commitments. Some of the U.S.
initiatives to support African-led efforts on climate change mitigation,
adaptation, and a just energy transition include:
1. Since the Summit, DFC has committed over $1.8 billion to new climate focused
projects in Africa and also committed over $520 million across 12 new
projects in Africa focused on expanding access to power. Notably, DFC
provided $500 million in political risk insurance to support marine
conversation in Gabon through the Gabon Blue Bonds project, the first
DFC-supported debt conversion for impact project in Africa. In Sierra
Leone, DFC provided $412 million in financing and political risk insurance
to support the Nant Energy project, a 105-megawatt thermal power plant that
is Sierra Leone’s first gas-to-power plant and will double the country’s
energy capacity and address a critical need for the Sierra Leonean people’s
access to reliable energy infrastructure. In Mozambique, DFC committed $179
million in debt and political risk insurance to support the development of
Central Eléctrica da Namaacha’s 120 megawatt wind power project, the
country’s first utility-scale wind power project.
2. In November 2023, Prosper Africa, the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID), and the State Department provided $10 million to seed a
$100 million balance sheet under the Green Guarantee Company (GGC), the
first-ever privately run guarantee company devoted to catalyzing green bonds
and loans focusing on Africa. GGC is expected to unlock an estimated $1
billion in new private capital for climate finance.
3. In September 2024, Prosper Africa announced a $5 million catalytic capital
award to ImpactA Global, aimed at mobilizing $300 million in private
investment for sustainable infrastructure in emerging markets. The award
serves as first-loss capital designed to reduce investment risk and attract
new institutional investors who might otherwise be hesitant to engage in
Africa-focused investments.
4. Bolstering Power Africa, USTDA has invested $5 million to support a just
energy transition across several African countries. These investments are
supporting solar energy generation in Zambia, wind energy generation in
Malawi, strengthening the power grid in Cote d’Ivoire, promoting clean
energy in South Africa, and supporting climate innovation through reverse
trade missions.
5. At the Summit, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced its intent to
develop a case study in partnership with the Ghanaian Ministry of Energy on
integrating nuclear and renewable energy systems. Under the Clean Energy
Ministerial, DOE is leading a $300,000 initiative to evaluate the potential
roles for nuclear and renewable energy to support Ghanaian energy needs for
both electric and non-electric applications. DOE and Ghana also launched
Africa’s first regional Clean Energy Training Center in Accra, Ghana,
providing courses on large and small modular reactors, financing, contract
structures, risk management, and legal issues.
6. DOE is working with Mozambique on methane mitigation from the gas sector and
clean hydrogen development, with Kenya on a $250,000 project to examine
opportunities for direct air capture combined with geothermal energy, with
Nigeria on a $250,000 study supporting their regulatory framework for carbon
management, and with Morocco on solar energy. DOE and the Moroccan Research
Institute in Solar Energy and New Energies hosted a Solar Decathlon Design
Challenge for collegiate teams from across Africa and around the world to
design buildings powered by renewable energy.
7. Under its Climate Change and Health Initiative, the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) established Exploratory Research Centers that bring together
scientists to work with affected communities to build resilience and adapt
to climate driven stressors. Three of the centers have focus areas in
Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. These
centers are conducting research on early warning models for vector borne
diseases, the effects of extreme weather events on mental health and
interpersonal violence, and pilot solutions for climate risks to human
health.
8. At the Summit, the Department of State announced the Accelerating Women’s
Empowerment in Energy (AWEE) project to help secure women’s economic futures
through green jobs. Since then, the State Department launched AWEE with an
initial investment of $1 million. The project has funded 11 small grants to
local organizations in South Africa and Kenya to address barriers to the
entry, promotion, and retention of women in each country’s clean energy
sector.
Promoting Food Security and Resilient Food Systems
At the Summit, President Biden launched the U.S.-African Union (AU) Strategic
Partnership to accelerate progress in tackling food insecurity, build stronger
and more diversified food systems and supply chains, scale Africa’s agricultural
production capacity, and expand African countries’ access to agricultural
markets. Since the launch of the partnership, we have aligned our food security
assistance and programming and leveraged our convening power and partnerships,
including through PGI, to build sustainable food systems, expand investments in
agricultural infrastructure, and tackle trade policy reforms.
1. Since FY 2022, the United States provided nearly $20 billion in life-saving
humanitarian assistance and early recovery, risk reduction, and resilience
programming in Africa. Humanitarian assistance addresses acute food
insecurity caused by conflicts, including Russia’s war in Ukraine and
natural disasters, including climate shocks impacting millions of people
across the African continent.
2. Since 2023, MCC has committed over $1.6 billion toward food security
initiatives through newly signed or launched programs. These projects are
boosting farm productivity and increasing rural incomes by investing in
better irrigation methods, increasing production of high-value crops, and
improving road conditions.
3. During his historic trip to Angola, President Biden announced additional
humanitarian funding, including more than $200 million to purchase, ship,
and distribute surplus agricultural commodities from American farmers to
provide life-saving food assistance for refugees and other food-insecure
populations in Africa.
4. Since December 2022, DFC has provided over $180 million to 15 food security
focused projects in Africa. These include a $20 million DFC loan to Victory
Farms in Kenya to support expansion of sustainable tilapia production on
Lake Victoria; a $75 million loan to Indorama Eleme Fertilizer & Chemicals
Limited to finance the development, design, construction, operation, and
maintenance of a urea-ammonia fertilizer facility in Port Harcourt, Nigeria;
and project development technical assistance and loans to Ifria, a developer
of cold chain warehouses in Morocco and Senegal.
5. As part of the U.S. Government’s Feed the Future initiative, the global
Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) program helps build resilient food
systems in partner countries using diverse, nutritious, and climate
resilient crops grown in healthy, fertile soils. Since 2023, the United
States has donated $150 million and mobilized another $60 million from
international partners for VACS programming. Implementing partner
organizations include the International Fund for Agricultural Development,
the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and the Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research.
6. USAID and the AU launched the “Feed the Future Accelerator” in September
2024 with a new commitment, working with Congress, of more than $80 million
to deepen food security partnerships in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. U.S.
investments will harness the region’s combination of fertile land, diverse
farming systems, and highly-motivated governments to support a regional
breadbasket. These funds complement a diverse Feed the Future portfolio
including over $497 million of ongoing U.S. investments in these three
countries, plus more than $150 million in private sector investments.
7. As part of the larger U.S. Government response to the global food crisis
through Feed the Future, USAID and the African Development Bank (AfDB)
completed an agreement in January 2024 to fund a $9.5 million
project—Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation—to help Kenya,
Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia increase food production and introduce
climate-smart technologies.
8. Building on the U.S.-AU Strategic Partnership on Food Security, the United
States supported the AU process to refresh the Comprehensive African
Agricultural Development Program (CAADP) 10-year strategic plan focused on
food security and increased agricultural trade. USAID provided analytical
work that fed into CAADP Technical Working Groups and submitted an
independent memorandum to the AU Commission with recommendations on how to
achieve agricultural transformation, wealth creation, food security and
nutrition, and economic growth.
Promoting Peace, Security, and Democratic Governance
The United States supported peace as the largest single humanitarian donor for
refugee and migration-related needs in Sub-Saharan Africa, working with
international organization and NGO partners to support over eight million
refugees and asylum seekers and over 30 million internally displaced persons.
President Biden also launched the 21st Century Partnership for African Security
(21PAS), to expand support to African partners with a focus on promoting
effective, responsible, and accountable defense institutions able to meet the
emerging threats of our time. At the Summit, the United States reaffirmed its
commitment to support complex political transitions in Africa through launching
the African Democratic and Political Transitions (ADAPT) initiative.
1. In FY 2024, the United States, through the State Department’s Bureau of
Population, Refugees, and Migration, provided more than $1.37 billion in
Africa to support urgent and lifesaving needs for refugees, asylum seekers,
conflict victims, stateless persons, and vulnerable migrants, including
those affected by climate change. Since December 2022, the United States
has resettled over 56,000 refugees from Sub-Saharan Africa, welcoming them
as they build new lives in communities across the United States. The
majority of refugees resettled were from the Democratic Republic of Congo,
Eritrea, the Republic of South Sudan, Somalia, and Sudan.
2. The United States, Gabon, Ghana, and Mozambique worked together to
successfully authorize UN Security Council Resolution 2719, which outlines a
process for the AU to receive UN funding for Peace Support Operations
(PSOs). UN Security Council Resolution 2719 is a testament to the U.S. and
AU commitment to addressing conflict in the region through African-led
solutions. The United States is supportive of the UN and the AU utilizing
the Resolution to support PSOs on the continent while working together to
ensure that human rights, transparency, and accountability mechanisms are
successful.
3. Through 21PAS, the Department of Defense is focusing on improving the
capacity of African partners to plan, resource, and sustain their defense
and security forces. 21PAS values partnerships rooted in transparency,
accountability, and respect for human rights, recognizing that these values
are foundational to lasting security. Using these criteria, the Department
of Defense identified a broad array of security cooperation programming
totaling $73 million for Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, and countries along the
Gulf of Guinea and Western Indian Ocean.
4. The United States continues to bolster democratic governance through the
ADAPT initiative. For example, in Gabon, U.S. technical assistance to
government entities, civic groups, media outlets, and women- and
youth-focused organizations supports inclusive constitutional and electoral
legal reforms and free, fair, and peaceful transitional elections.
5. Since 2022, USAID, through the Elections and Political Processes Fund, has
provided $48.9 million for critical election support in 28 countries in
Africa for unanticipated needs such as snap elections or other unforeseen
political developments. USAID provided an additional $17.4 million through
the Defending Democratic Elections Fund to 10 countries to tackle deeply
rooted electoral integrity issues, especially during inter-election
periods. Through the Women’s Political Participation and Leadership fund,
USAID provided $8.36 million in FY 2022 and 2023 to four countries to build
and sustain the pipeline of women leaders and facilitate their safe and
meaningful participation in political, peacebuilding, and transition
processes.
6. Since 2022, the U.S. Government has dedicated over $181 million through the
Prevention and Stabilization Fund to enhance partnerships with Mozambique,
Libya, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, and Togo. Efforts focus on
10-year objectives to include promoting reconciliation and unification;
accelerating inclusive and sustainable economic development; improving
responsive governance and security institutions; promoting respect for human
rights; strengthening justice systems; building capacity and resilience in
historically marginalized, at-risk, and conflict-affected areas; and
advancing meaningful participation of women and youth.
Deepening Health Cooperation
The United States works in partnership with African nations and regional and
global partners, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Africa
Regional Office (AFRO), the AU, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and
Prevention (Africa CDC), and the private sector, to save lives and build more
resilient health systems that are better able to prevent and respond to current
and future health threats.
1. The Administration has built on the United States’ longstanding leadership
in the fight to end HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria as public health
threats, including by investing more than $15.55 billion through the
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the President’s
Malaria Initiative (PMI), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and
Malaria (Global Fund), and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. These investments
have reduced the burden of HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and
vaccine-preventable diseases and have strengthened health systems in more
than 30 countries on the African continent.
2. Over the past two years, the United States provided more than $3 billion in
global health funding to support health workers, including funding through
PEPFAR to support more than 346,000 health professionals to deliver HIV and
tuberculosis services in the past year. PEPFAR is also providing $8
million to support nurses, who are the backbone of patient care, in
Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Eswatini, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, and
Zambia. In FY 2024, USAID provided $10 million to support the Global
Health Worker Initiative to build on the Primary Impact Initiative in
countries including Ghana.
3. PEPFAR has been central to reversing the HIV/AIDS pandemic’s trajectory—in
Sub-Saharan Africa, there were 56 percent fewer new HIV infections in 2023
than in 2010. Nine African countries are nearing or achieving the UNAIDS
2025 global goal that 95 percent of people living with HIV will know their
status and benefit from treatment that keeps them healthy and helps prevent
further spread, with several more countries on track to reach these goals
by the end of 2025.
4. Since FY 2021, PMI has invested more than $100 million to support 100,000
community health workers across its partner countries to rapidly detect and
treat malaria in their communities. These investments in integrated
platforms also enable treatment of other common childhood illnesses such as
diarrhea and pneumonia, improve the quality and reach of primary health
care, and strengthen countries’ ability to prevent, detect, and respond to
disease outbreaks.
5. PMI has supported African manufacturing to promote more resilient and
sustainable commodity supply chains. In FY 2023, PMI sourced approximately
10% of its commodity procurements from Africa, more than double what was
procured from the continent in FY 2021. From FY 2019 to FY 2023, PMI
transitioned from primary reliance on air freight to using sea and land
freight to transport malaria commodities, reducing transportation-related
greenhouse gas emissions by 85% and generating $66 million in cost savings,
which PMI used to expand other malaria-related programs.
6. In April 2024, the Administration launched the U.S. Global Health Security
Strategy to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response and welcomed six
new Global Health Security Partners in Africa. The United States continues
working in partnership with African nations to support outbreak responses,
including on Marburg, mpox, Ebola, and cholera.
7. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of NIH, has
been partnering with research agencies and institutions in Africa for
decades. Longstanding research programs have enabled collaboration on
research responses to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.
8. From 2022 to 2023, the U.S. Government provided more than $22 million to
support the Government of Uganda’s Ebola response and an additional $7
million to help neighboring countries prepare for potential outbreaks. In
2023, the United States worked with the Governments of Tanzania and
Equatorial Guinea and other international partners to address simultaneous
but unrelated Marburg virus disease outbreaks, providing over $5.8 million
to support key response and prevention efforts. In response to the Marburg
virus disease outbreak in Rwanda starting in September 2024, the United
States has provided technical support, vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutics,
and personal protective equipment and plans to allocate over $11 million
regionally to address urgent health needs.
9. The United States partners with biological laboratories in the public,
private, and academic sectors in 20 African countries to provide trainings
and assist partner institutions with performing laboratory risk
assessments. These partnerships improve biosafety, biosecurity, and
cybersecurity. The United States also provides training to technical staff
and biomedical engineers responsible for upkeep of laboratory equipment for
high containment laboratories.
10. DFC continues to catalyze investments to strengthen regional manufacturing
capacity in Africa, including by providing input into the design of Gavi’s
African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator to ensure long-term
sustainability of African vaccine manufacturers. Following DFC’s loan of
€100 million to Aspen Pharmacare in 2021, in 2024 DFC committed a direct
loan of up to €110 million to expand Aspen’s capacity to manufacture
pediatric vaccines, insulin, and other essential medicines in South Africa.
DFC collaborated with the International Finance Corporation, the German
Development Finance Institution, and Proparco to co-finance expansion of
Aspen.
11. DFC also invests in health services, and technology to improve access to
affordable, high-quality health care and products. For example, in 2023
DFC committed a $10 million loan to Hewatele, a medical oxygen manufacturer
in Kenya to expand production and distribution of medical oxygen. DFC also
provided a $10 million loan guaranty to KCB Bank in Kenya to increase
financing available to small and medium enterprises in the health sector.
12. In December 2022, USTDA launched the Coalition for Healthcare
Infrastructure in Africa, a collaboration between USTDA and U.S. industry
to help meet the healthcare needs of African partners and to increase
access to quality healthcare products and services for millions of
individuals across the continent. From November 2023 to July 2024, USTDA
hosted three healthcare workshops that convened U.S. and African public and
private sector representatives with the aim of strengthening regulatory
systems and facilitating broader market access for healthcare products
across the continent.
13. Since 2022, the United States has donated over $50 million to projects in
support of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Rays of Hope
initiative, which provides assistance in nuclear and radiation medicine to
advance cancer diagnosis and treatment in low- and middle-income
countries. In 2024, the United States provided an additional $6 million to
Rays of Hope projects in Benin, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DRC), Malawi, Niger, and Senegal.
14. At the Summit, First Lady Jill Biden highlighted the U.S. Government’s
unwavering commitment to improving cancer outcomes in countries in Africa.
In July 2024, the Biden Cancer Moonshot hosted the White House Africa
Cancer Care Forum, which convened health leaders from Benin, DRC, Lesotho,
Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Zambia committed
to expanding national capacity for cancer diagnosis and treatment. During
the forum, the United States announced over $100 million in commitments to
reduce the burden of cancer, bringing the collective total to over $400
million.
15. The U.S.-South Africa Cancer Care and Research Alliance (U.S.-SACCRA) was
established in December 2023 to deliver improved health outcomes in Africa,
including by reducing the burden of cancer. U.S.-SACCRA partners with
several South African academic and research institutions; government
departments, and leading U.S. cancer institutes to design, share, and
fast-track scientific exchanges and capacity development for cancer care
and research in both countries.
Elevating African Diaspora Engagement
Since the Summit, the Administration has aimed to harness the dynamism of the
African Diaspora to enrich lives on both sides of the Atlantic. The
Administration has strengthened educational, cultural, social, political, and
economic ties among African communities, the global African Diaspora, and the
United States. As Vice President Harris said during her 2023 trip to the
African continent, “The fates of America and the continent of Africa are
interconnected and interdependent.”
1. In December 2022, President Biden established the President’s Advisory
Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States (PAC-ADE) to
provide advice on strengthening connections between the U.S. Government and
the African Diaspora in the United States. The Council members held their
inaugural meeting in October 2023 with Vice President Harris and Secretary
Blinken presiding.
2. Since the Summit, PAC-ADE conducted its first plenary session meeting at
Spelman College, and developed the EdTech initiative announced during Kenyan
President Ruto’s visit to Spelman College. The Council also conducted its
inaugural visit to the continent in July 2024 to Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria,
where they met with government, civil society, and private-sector partners
to discuss diaspora-led investments in education, entrepreneurship, health,
technology, youth and women empowerment, and the creative industries. The
Council held its final meeting of the year in October 2024, with remarks by
Assistant to the President, Senior Advisor to the President, and Director of
the White House Office of Public Engagement Mayor Steve Benjamin. Several
members of the Council joined President Biden on his trip to Angola in
December 2024.
3. In concert with PAC-ADE’s keen focus on increasing business ties with the
continent, Prosper Africa has prioritized the support of Diaspora firms and
investors, resulting in a portfolio of notable transactions with
Diaspora-owned and led firms. These include Cybastion’s partnership with
Cisco Systems on over $800 million of cybersecurity and digital upgrade
contracts in six countries. Prosper Africa also established active
partnerships with leading Diaspora organizations, including joining with
USAID to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Alliance for
Black Business, an organization founded in 2022 by the National Black
Chamber of Commerce, the National Business League, and the World Conference
of Mayors.
4. In addition to PAC-ADE, the U.S. Government is investing in Diaspora
engagement through education. The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI)
embodies our investment in our shared future by providing training
opportunities for diverse African youth. At the Summit, Vice President
Harris announced plans to expand YALI. As part of this expansion, in
September 2023, USAID launched the YALI Legacy Localization award to expand
the work of the four Regional Leadership Centers on the continent that
provide transformative leadership training. In November 2024, the USAID-led
YALI Alumni Expo and Trade Show took place in Cape Town, South Africa, where
over 500 YALI alumni showcased their innovations and fostered connection
with experts and officials from the private sector, civil society,
government, and the diaspora community.
Digital Transformation with Africa
Launched at the Summit, the Digital Transformation with Africa (DTA) initiative
aims to expand digital access in Africa, increase commercial engagement between
U.S. and African companies in the digital sector, support increased digital
literacy, and strengthen digital enabling environments across Africa. DTA works
in alignment with the priorities outlined in the AU’s Digital Transformation
Strategy to enable innovative, inclusive and sustainable growth and
development. DTA’s work is organized across the following three pillars:
Digital Economy and Infrastructure
1. In May 2024, Vice President Harris launched two public-private
partnerships—the Mobilizing Access to the Digital Economy (MADE) Alliance:
Africa and the Partnership for Digital Access in Africa (PDAA). Both focus
on increasing digital inclusion across Africa. The MADE Alliance aims to
provide digital access to critical services for 100 million individuals and
businesses in Africa over the next 10 years. PDAA will support African
institutions to double the number of people connected to the internet in
Africa from 40% to 80%, connect one billion people to the internet by 2030,
and increase internet connectivity for women and girls from 30% to 80%.
2. Since December 2022, USTDA has funded 20 activities to build the business
case for innovative U.S. technologies that help to advance inclusive,
secure, and sustainable digital infrastructure across Africa, including
priority connectivity, cybersecurity, and smart cities projects. USTDA is
leveraging its grant-based funding for project preparation, which mitigates
risk and unlocks bankable infrastructure projects.
3. Prosper Africa leads the Africa Tech for Trade Alliance (AT4T) with the
support of USAID. AT4T unites leading American and African tech companies
to accelerate e-commerce and digital trade in Africa. Alliance members
include Visa, Mastercard, Intel, Cisco, Google, AWS and others. By
leveraging U.S. companies’ technology assets, services, and expertise, the
alliance fosters U.S.-Africa trade in fintech, ag-tech, eHealth and more.
4. In April 2024, the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa
(PAC-DBIA), the Department of Commerce, and USTDA led a mission to the
American Chamber of Commerce Business Summit in Kenya. In Nairobi, they
announced U.S. private sector commitments and collaborations, including
initiatives in data protection, artificial intelligence, digital upskilling,
and new investments in digital connectivity, women’s tech leadership, and a
cybersecurity experience center.
Human Capital Development
1. In May 2024, USAID announced the DTA-YALI Partnership to leverage YALI
Regional Leadership Centers to expand digital skills and literacy, support
digital entrepreneurs and start-ups, and increase private sector engagement
in 49 African countries. USAID is also expanding the “Responsible Computer
Challenges” to universities and educators in Kenya, Ghana, and South
Africa. This activity aims to empower students to account for the social
and ethical context and impact of digital technologies, including frontier
technologies such as artificial intelligence.
2. The Department of State prioritizes biosafety and biosecurity capacity
building in Africa. Over the past two years, the State Department has
conducted trainings on cyberbiosecurity and secure data sharing to promote
safe and timely coordination during outbreak responses. The Department of
State has ongoing efforts in practical cyberbiosecurity literacy for high
containment laboratories to institutionalize cyberhygiene practices and to
build both in-country and regional networks of leaders in cyberbiosecurity.
3. USAID and MCC are supporting the DigiFemmes program as part of MCC’s $536
million Compact with the Government of Côte d’Ivoire. DigiFemmes provides
the leadership, innovation, and technical training women need to grow their
businesses through data and digital tools. Nearly 9,000 women-owned small
and medium enterprises have benefited from the $5.3 million program.
DigiFemmes graduates also accessed a total of $525,000 in follow-on funding
distributed as small grants by the U.S. African Development Foundation to
help refine their products and expand their markets through digital tools
and innovations.
4. In March 2024, MCC and the Government of Togo launched Nanatech, a program
designed to equip Togolese women and entrepreneurs with the digital skills
they need to benefit from the growing digital economy. To date, nearly
2,000 women and 200 supporting organizations have benefited.
Digital Enabling Environment
1. In September 2024, the United States hosted the landmark Global Inclusivity
and Artificial Intelligence: Africa (GIAA) Conference in Lagos, Nigeria,
bringing together over 400 stakeholders, including government officials,
industry leaders, civil society members, startup founders, and academics, to
discuss the safe, secure, inclusive, and trustworthy deployment of
artificial intelligence on the continent. The GIAA conference underscored
the growing importance of Africa’s inclusion in artificial intelligence
development and the continent’s key role in the global emerging technology
landscape.
2. In November 2024, representatives from the Department of Commerce,
Department of State, USAID, and USTDA participated in a variety of
engagements during the Africa Tech Festival in Cape Town, South Africa. DTA
hosted a U.S. Government side event for over 100 stakeholders from the U.S.
and African public and private sectors to discuss key challenges to
expanding digital access, increasing digital literacy, and strengthening
digital enabling environments across Africa. Participants discussed
innovative U.S. and African solutions and collaborative strategies to
advance Africa’s digital transformation.
3. USAID is working with Afrobarometer, through the United States Institute of
Peace, to conduct public surveys to assess public awareness, perception, and
understanding of digital threats, online safety, and cybersecurity in Benin,
Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Tanzania, Senegal, and Angola.
4. USAID continues to facilitate discussions, build capacity, and deliver
expert advisory services to the African Continental Free Trade Area
Secretariat to develop and implement the Digital Trade Protocol to help
advance international and intra-African digital economy and regulatory
standards.
Partnerships in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
The Administration has elevated gender equity and equality across our foreign
policy in Africa and around the world. Societies—including the United States—do
better when women participate and have equal opportunities. Advancing the
status of women and girls reduces poverty and promotes sustainable economic
growth, increases access to education, improves health outcomes, advances
political stability, and fosters democracy. During the Summit, Vice President
Harris announced new commitments to advance women’s economic participation in
Africa, including the revitalization of the African Women’s Entrepreneurship
Program (AWEP).
1. Vice President Harris launched the Women in Digital Economy Fund (WiDEF) in
2023 to accelerate efforts to close the gender digital divide. WiDEF and
the corresponding Women in the Digital Economy Initiative have together
catalyzed over $1 billion in commitments from governments, the private
sector, foundations, and civil society to accelerate digital gender equality
– including $102 million in U.S. direct and aligned commitments. In
addition, President Biden secured a historic commitment from G20 leaders to
halve the digital gender gap by 2030. Vice President Harris also launched
the Women in the Sustainable Economy Initiative (WISE) in 2023 to promote
women’s participation in sectors that address climate change. Together,
WiDEF and WISE represent a commitment of over $3 billion, including millions
to empower African women and girls.
2. In July 2024, SBA, Howard University’s Small Business Development Center,
AWEP, the State Department, and the Department of Commerce cooperated on an
event uniting local and African women-owned businesses on the margins of the
2024 AGOA Forum. The program and marketplace facilitated business
networking and an exchange of best practices on inclusive trade and to
support for small business partnerships. The event built on SBA’s February
2024 virtual event “Connecting U.S. and West African Small Businesses.”
3. Over the past two years, DFC has deepened its commitment to advancing
economic empowerment across Africa through a range of impactful
investments. Key investments include a $100 million loan to First City
Monument Bank, Ltd., expanding access to longer-term loans for women-owned
small- and medium-sized enterprises in Nigeria; the 2X Ignite Africa
Warehousing Facility, providing critical portfolio-building capital to
female-led and gender-balanced fund managers; and a $10 million equity
investment in Janngo Capital Startup Fund to fuel the growth of African
startups, with at least 50% of funding to women-led enterprises. Each of
these investments reflects DFC’s dedication to empowering women, driving
innovation, and building sustainable pathways for economic independence.
4. The Department of State, through the Support Her Empowerment-Women’s
Inclusion in New Security (SHE WINS) initiative, has invested more than $9
million globally and supported seven women-led and women-serving civil
society organizations in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and the
Democratic Republic of Congo. In August 2024, under the SHE WINS Rapid
Response Fund, the United States, in partnership with Norway and Canada,
convened a group of Sudanese women civil society leaders to inform
discussions on a ceasefire, humanitarian access, and monitoring mechanisms.
5. Announced during Vice President Harris’ visit to Ghana in 2023, the Imarisha
Women’s Initiative is helping women advance in their careers, improve their
skill sets, and increase their income, while creating more flexible and
supportive workplaces. The first cohort of four companies in East Africa
are providing leadership, mentorship, and skill trainings; menstrual health
and hygiene and lactation support; and programs on the prevention of and
response to gender-based violence and harassment in the workplace.
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