are concerned because of the past comments and lack of serious engagement with countries in subsaharan africaer forget the health issue during the george bush administration, the last republican president to ever travel to africa, where he focused in on hiv and aids. and i'll never forget then secretary of state colin powell says, if we don't stand up those people in africa to prevent hiv and aids, you know, there could be a national health crisis because if you don't -- if you have a sick continent, how do you stand up people to help support the nation when it comes to military issues? there are so many issues, once again, that africa is engaged with around the world. if incoming president, president-elect trump, does not deal with that, he's losing out on a great deal. again, as you said, ana, it impacts the world. china and russia have been building infrastructure in africa to take their oil. so, it's -- this is a big issue. it's more of a global issue. it's not just a black issue. it's a global economic resource issue, national security issue. >> peter, let's talk about the timing here be

part of washington's efforts to counter china's efforts in subsaharan africa. one question reporters keep asking mr. biden on this trip, and he continues to ig for it. >> why did you pardon your son? >> why did you pardon your son? >> mr. president, care to comment on your son? >> yes, the president's controversial pardon of his son is overshadowing the trip and broadly overshadowing the president's legacy. critics from insides his own party say the president's explain nation amplifies president-elect trump's claims of a weaponized justice department undercutting arguments trump threatens the rule of law and gives his administration political cover. we again with nbc news white house correspondent erin gilchrist, washington post columnist eugene robin sopin'son, former u.s. attorney joyce vance and republican national committee chairman and co-host of the weekend michael steele. so aaron, in addition to highlighting the bond between the u.s. and angola a major goal of the trip is to counter china's influence there. talk about that. because there's a lot of mone

on the 2nd of october, 1958, guinea became the 1st french colony in subsaharan africa to gain independence but gives independence a good a rapid chain reaction. other african countries also started demanding food independence. the goal realize that he was losing control, and that is great dream of the african union was dying. 1960 was a year of great change. in less than 10 months, 15 new african states joined the movements for independence. the many applicants for members of the french parliament, now governments, their own country like felix to fit one e nicely coast. and they were posted as things off in synagogue after guy experienced a collective euphoria of freedom. hope enjoy the, you know, there's been a lot the balloting moon bass or the knows also to the dollar thought you give it the about value. the me not going to click through to him yet taking over an incident with re um what times on, on the number for you to come to them. uh, well, i like, gosh, is you, i just looked at the number related with the file materials i have to like, if i do within a few friends had no choice bu

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missionaries to fight in the battles in the -- and china meanwhile has been pouring money into subsaharan africaunited states has just not been in the game. and it had better be in this sort of great power competition. we're third in a three-horse race right now. >> yeah, we were discussing this last night, eugene, one of the issues is that the united states aid is frequently on matters like healthcare and nutrition, things like that. where you can't walk down the street and point to something and say the united states built that the way you can almost anywhere in africa point at something that china built. >> that's absolutely right. and china is building, you know, massive projects. not always on terms that are favorable to the countries where they're being built. china is, you know, driving bargains that are favorable to china. nonetheless, they are projects that people can see. now, i don't downplay particularly the pepfar program that was established by george w. bush. i think by far the best thing george w. bush did in office. it saved millions of lives in southern africa with the antivira

joe biden has arrived, you know, and go out on a long promised visit to subsaharan africa, who's there to showcase or us backed railway project, which is pushing as a new approach encountering some of china's influence on the african continent. biden is the 1st sitting us president to visit on go out. joining us now from cape town from on this is that you think i do, i think, okay, who's the editor of the semi for an online use platform, the advocate editor of semaphores. thank you so much and god for being with us on algae 0. so the 1st us president to visit on go out. why did buy didn't choose this country and what's behind this last ditch africa trip? thanks for having me. i mean, he did the president had promised he would uh visit after the back in december 2022 during the us africa data summits which should be posted in washington dc. he had promised he'd be the last. yeah. um and of course that didn't happen then it was supposed to be in october and then the good to go because of the hurricanes. ready and parts of the united states and now, but he's leaving off as the felt you ju

so my -- and the problem is that a number of countries around whether it is in subsaharan africa, this is what you should be doing. well, please, if you have a say, make sure that, you know, you don't follow that example. it's terrible. it is stifling energy and stifling creativity rather than opening new doors to young people. >> support you basically 100%. i had an experience where we were discussing the private sector and there was this individual who who came up with a study that we needed a ministry and that's exactly what it is. whenever i work or it's always for the government, take up your hands. don't help the private sector. what you can do is change the regulation. the regulations which pretty much makes it incredibly difficult for companies to register. i don't know how many months and months and months to register a company. it's ridiculously complicated. it's almost like the flintstones. you see them riding a car and you look underneath there's somebody moving his feet. that's a lot of what we do. so i think we need to change those regulations, streamline then. but also t

up we work with in africa, ai what they have a been doing is taking data that's specific to subsaharan africa and making is this your that we're doing targeted kind of cancer treatment analysis and this again is making sure we don't just have generic global data, but trained on local data sets to be relevance and then the last example i'll give on health care, i recent visited a start-up company in korea that does work to enhance medical mri images, so, it's what's interesting there, a lot of facility around the world have older mri technology and they're not as crisp and clear images and it's expensive to upgrade to the latest and greatest equipment and yet, you can use generative ai to enhance imagery, it becomes crisper and better than today's technology. seeing this as an easy way to upgrade around the world. a cost effective way. i want to follow up and ask both of you. what do you do when there are data gaps in areas in agriculture and health care when you don't have the local data sets that you mentioned? >> you talked about this and. >> when you were talking about health care, i've go

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