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U.S. VP Harris Notes Importance of Green Energy in Africa Trip

United States Vice President Kamala Harris' trip to Tanzania was a landmark development for the country, the East African Community of which, it is a key member and the rapidly accelerating race to decarbonise America's supply of critical minerals, Tanzania Daily News reports.

The visit was also testimony to Tanzania's growing strategic importance as an emerging supplier of critical minerals, and the level of interest and commitment now being placed on the supply of critical metals needed to power a greener U.S. economy and generations of electric vehicles.

This comes after Harris announced that the private sector would be donating $7 billion to a fund designed to help Africa combat and adapt to climate change whille U.S. $1 billion in public and private financing would be used for global programs focused on economic empowerment of women during a roundtable of women entrepreneurs in the Ghanaian capital, Accra.

U.S. $528 million, provided by the private sector, will support women's economic empowerment in Africa.

Harris earlier pledged more than $100 million in U.S. assistance to Ghana. Voice of America reports that she stressed that U.S. interests in African nations extend beyond competing with China.

Harris also, during her visit to Ghana's Jubilee House with President Nana Akufo-Addo, said that the U.S. will commit more than U.S$139 million in assistance, most of which will support conflict prevention in the Sahel region, where extremists have expanded their footprint.

She spoke at Jubilee House, seat of Ghana's presidency, alongside Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo.

Ghana was the VP's first stop in a week-long tour to Africa. Harris will now head to Tanzania for two nights in Tanzania, and then spend one night in Zambia. She is the highest-ranking member of the Biden administration to visit Africa this year.

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United States Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on arrival in Ghana, March 26, 2023.

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