On the journey, Harris will meet with Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema.
Subjects for the upcoming conferences will embrace “our shared dedication to democracy, inclusive and sustainable financial development, meals safety” and assist for Ukraine in its struggle towards Russia, in keeping with the assertion. Harris may even “strengthen people-to-people ties and have interaction with civil society, together with younger leaders, enterprise representatives, entrepreneurs, and members of the African Diaspora.”
Accompanying Harris on the journey will likely be her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff.
For Harris, the first female, Black and Asian vice president, the journey comes as she seeks to say herself extra forcefully forward of the 2024 election. In January, she delivered a speech commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Courtroom resolution establishing a constitutional proper to abortion, which it overturned in June. In February, Harris said Russia has dedicated “crimes towards humanity” throughout its unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
Harris beforehand met with Hichilema in Washington in September 2021 after Zambia’s nationwide election.
“Final month, we watched as a historic variety of Zambians voted for you, with younger folks main the best way,” Harris mentioned at a information briefing on the time. In the course of the briefing, Harris additionally disclosed that she had visited the nation when she was 5, “posing in entrance of the parliament constructing there.”
First woman Jill Biden not too long ago traveled to Africa to advertise ladies’s empowerment and democracy.
