Biden’s Africa Summit Seeks to Reset Relations

President Biden is seeking to use a summit with African leaders this week to reset relations with a continent whose governments are divided over Washington’s tough approach toward Moscow, and where China and Russia have challenged U.S. power.

The three-day summit, which kicked off Tuesday, comes more than eight years after President Barack Obama first invited leaders from across Africa to the White House. In the interim, many African countries have been courted by other global powers, including Russia, Turkey and, most prominently, China, whose triennial Forum for China-Africa Relations has been a major venue for Beijing’s expanding influence on the continent.