#shorts On 12/12/2022, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and national security adviser Jake Sullivan held a briefing with reporters to preview the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit that begins Tuesday. A reporter asked Sullivan, “on Angolan investment. Recently, President Biden announced $2 billion investment for Angola. Will there be — will there be any more investment coming from Angola? Or what the President really expects from this investment that he announced many times for Angola?

MR. SULLIVAN: So, I — he really expects that you will see a major deployment of solar power in Angola. That was a significant project that was facilitated by funding and mechanisms from the United States government, so he’s looking forward to seeing that actually come to fruition.

President Biden has invited 49 African heads of state and the African Union Commission chair to Washington, D.C., for the three-day summit. The leaders are expected to talk about the coronavirus, climate change, trade etc. It has been eight years since the first U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. White House officials say big announcements will be made throughout the summit. One announcement previewed is that Biden would use the summit to declare his support for adding the African Union as a permanent member of the Group of 20 nations.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that the administration would commit to spending $55 billion in Africa over the the next three years on “a wide range of sectors to tackle the core challenges of our time.” “If you compare what the United States is committing over the next three years to what any other country is committing, I think we stack up extremely favorably,” Sullivan said.

The United States (U.S.) Government, with support by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, $2 billion to develop a solar project in the southwestern African nation. The project will include the development of solar mini-grids, home power kits and solar-to-power telecommunications.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/tamkgpHdriU

U.S. Taxpayer money $2 billion major solar power deployment in Angola