The Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, Linda Thomas Greenfield, will travel to Ghana, Mozambique, and Kenya from January 25 to 29, to advance joint priorities following December’s U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit.
Thomas-Greenfield, who is a former Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, is expected to visit Kenya on Wednesday, January 25.
In Nairobi, she will, as reported, receive briefings from the UN country team on humanitarian programmes, including the regional drought response and assistance to refugees.
A senior administration official reveals that her tour will focus on regional security issues, food insecurity, humanitarian issues, and supporting African efforts to mitigate climate change.
Her trip is the second high-profile visit to Africa since the three-day December 2022 summit in Washington. It comes just as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, on January 28, wraps up her own trip to Senegal, Zambia and South Africa, seeking to deepen U.S.-Africa economic ties by expanding trade and investment flows.
Biden announced over $15 billion in two-way trade and investment commitments, deals, and partnerships at the December summit that drew delegations from 49 African nations to Washington.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, is the second Cabinet member heading to Africa as part of President Joe Biden’s big push to engage with the world’s second-largest continent.
The envoy stressed that her visit to Africa is not to compete with China or Russia but “to affirm and strengthen our partnerships with key current and former U.N. Security Council members.”
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