Dakar: US Secretary Antony Blinken said on Saturday the country invested in Africa without imposing unsustainable debt levels, when he witnessed the signing of a contract worth more than $ 1 billion in the capital of Senegal Dakar.
The agreement between four US and Senegal companies was billed as part of his country’s tone to help Africa build infrastructure with transparent and sustainable agreement.
Be careful not to directly criticize Chinese infrastructure projects, which have breed in the past decade, Blinken said during a visit to Nigeria on Friday that international offers were too fragile and coercion.
The United States invests “without a sad country with debt that cannot be handled,” he said during the signing ceremony with the Minister of Economy Senegal, Amadou Hott.
The agreement will help improve infrastructure, create jobs and strengthen public safety and climate resilience, he added.
Senegal is the last stop on a tour of three Blinken countries in Africa, attending a visit to Kenya and Nigeria, where he has tried to attack a new tone from the era of former President Donald Trump, who underestimated several African countries and forbade travel from six of them.