The US-Africa summit, which began on Tuesday, included the first forum for US-African cooperation in space to explore and address 21st-century challenges and opportunities, he said. declaration for the White House
The forum highlighted the space partnership and cooperation between the United States and Africa, including responding to climate, biodiversity and global food crises, promoting responsible behavior in space, and scientific and commercial space cooperation between the two set off.
The statement said the forum celebrated the signing of the Artemis Accords by Nigeria and Rwanda, making them the first African signatories.
The Artemis Accords, which have been signed so far by 23 countries, are a set of principles to guide the next phase of space exploration and underline the importance of applying best practices and rules of responsible conduct as well as respecting the agreement on registry and the salvage and return agreement.
The US-Africa summit is an important symbol of the value Washington has recently placed on its African relationship, especially in light of the significant increase in Chinese influence on the brown continent.
The agenda of the summit includes several axes, in particular economic partnership, human rights and development on the continent, climate change and food security.
Interestingly, the US administration has approved allocating $55 billion to Africa over three years for health and climate change response.
This summit comes in the context of the new “Africa” strategy unveiled last summer and the announcement of a comprehensive reform of US policy in sub-Saharan Africa to deal with the Chinese and Russian presence.
