Kamala Harris, Vice President of U.S. on a 3-day visit to Ghana, Tanzania & Zambia

Vice President Kamala Harris is on a 9-day trip that has the aim of increasing investment in three nations to support economic development. Her first destination will be Ghana, then Tanzania, and finally Zambia.

Since the U.S.-Africa summit in Washington, DC, Secretary Janet Yellen, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the First Lady, and Secretary Antony Blinken have already made four other significant trips as top administration officials.

The main goal of these tours is to understand the growing need to strengthen the ties of the U.S. with Africa specifically when it faces competition from other global powers, particularly China and Russia.

The trip was officially planned on the U.S.-Africa summit in Washington held on last December where President Joe Biden declared that the United States was "all in on Africa's future."

Ghana is going through a devasted situation of the financial crisis in decades, giving President Nana Akufo-Addo a rare form of youth opposition.

Ms. Harris met with President Akufo-Addo and followed by a visit to a local recording studio in Accra and also met with the young people working in the creative industry.

The next scheduled trip for the VP was Cape Coast slave castle after the major speech to the young people. She then stated about the brutality of slavery and the African diaspora to the youth.

The Vice President will next meet with female entrepreneurs on March 29 in Accra to talk about the economic development of women. She will be announcing several public and private sector investments across the entire region to overcome the digital gender gap and empower women economically.

On her next destination, which is Tanzania VP will meet President Samia Suluhu Hassan and take part in the wreath-laying ceremony to remember the U.S. Embassy bombing in 1998. That was followed by a meeting with entrepreneurs at a tech incubator and co-working space in Dar.

The next destination will be Zambia which has a similar situation and problems as Ghana. After the covid pandemic hit, it was the first time that Africa defaulted on its debt.

Last but not the least, the Vice President will convene business and philanthropic leaders on April 1, Saturday at Lusaka. The leaders will be from both the continent and the United States and will talk about the procedure to collaborate and build on the work of her trip and each announcement she made during the trip.