Biden aims to narrow trust gap with US-Africa leaders summit


              FILE - President Emmerson Mnangagwa, of Zimbabwe, attends a session at the Africa Pavilion at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 7, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. In a national address that he delivered in November in a new Chinese-gifted multimillion-dollar parliament building, Mnangagwa held out the invitation to the U.S.-Africa summit as a sign of his administration's success. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
            
              FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Dec. 8, 2022. Biden is set to play host to dozens of African leaders in Washington this coming week during the three-day U.S-Africa Leaders Summit that begins Tuesday, Dec. 13. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
            FILE - Secretary of State Antony Blinken listens as African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat speaks on Oct. 27, 2022, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The White House previewed one major summit announcement on Friday, Dec. 9, saying that President Joe Biden would use the U.S-Africa Leaders Summit to declare his support for adding the African Union as a permanent member of the Group of 20 nations. (Blair Gable/Pool Photo via AP, File) FILE - President Barack Obama, seated center, presides over the third working session of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit at the State Department in Washington, Aug. 6, 2014. The U.S-Africa Leaders Summit begins Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, a follow-up to the first such gathering held eight years ago by President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
Biden aims to narrow trust gap with US-Africa leaders summit