Agenda 2063 Moving Forward If Unevenly
In a speech during the December 2022 US-Africa Leaders’ Summit, President Joe Biden promised to support African development through the African Union’s Agenda 2062 initiative. “And with this summit, and with the African Union’s Agenda 2063, our eyes are fixed squarely on the future. We’re now in the early years that will be…a decisive decade,” Biden told the gathered African leaders. Throughout the summit, the Biden administration announced initiatives in several sectors: “The United States and African nations recognize that our world is quickly changing, and this Summit reflected how our relationship is evolving with it. We will deepen our collaboration to solve global problems and shape the rules of the road for technology, space, cybersecurity, trade, environmental protection, and economics.” Taken as a whole, they add up to supporting the African Union in the fulfillment of its Agenda 2063 plan, which is the continent’s “development blueprint to