DRUG TRAFFICKING AND IMMIGRATION
US monetary assist performed an important position in rebuilding Liberia after its civil wars, and it was nonetheless receiving an annual US$160 million — about three % of its GDP – as not too long ago as final yr.
“Liberia is a long-time pal of the USA, and we consider in your coverage of constructing America nice once more,” President Joseph Boakai informed Trump.
“And we additionally go a good distance with you and your in your diplomacy that has to do with financial improvement and industrial friendship.”
US arch-rival China has made substantial investments in a number of of the nations attending, with Gabon offering 22 per cent of the manganese it makes use of in batteries.
Russia has in the meantime supported the nascent Alliance of Sahel States, which shares borders with a number of of the international locations at Wednesday’s lunch.
Safety is anticipated to loom massive on the assembly, with worldwide drug trafficking and immigration high issues for Washington.
West Africa’s Sahel international locations have been dogged by assaults from terrorist teams, whereas a sequence of coups has deepened political instability.
