Today, 23rd Jan, 2024 is a scheduled day for the United States Secretary of States, Antony Blinken to meet with two West African powers, Nigeria and Ivory coast.
Antony Blinken would arrive Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire to meet with President Alassane Ouattara who once won the US praise for consolidating democracy and head down after to Abuja to meet with Tinubu.
Blinken had on Monday 22nd January 2024, attended a critical football game in the Africa Cup of Nations between Ivory Coast and Equatorial Guinea which ended 4-0 against Ivory Coast, after which he was given an Ivorian orange jersey bearing his name.
Blinken has been around the West African region for some days of which he declared the US support for Africa as “We are all in for Africa” while visiting a port in Cape Verde’s capital Praia that was assisted by the U.S.
He also stated that “We see Africa as an essential, critical, central part of our future.”
Although, Nigeria’s Tinubu met President Joe Biden during a G-20 summit September 2023 in India, Blinken’s visit would be the closest of the United States present administration to African leaders generally after failure of President Biden failing to meet up his promised visit during some African Leaders Visit to Washington in 2022.