US-Africa Leaders Summit: Washington ‘playing catch-up’ with Russia and China

The Biden Administration is attempting to court Africa’s 1.3 billion people at this week's U.S.-Africa Summit in Washington, D.C., the first U.S. summit in eight years.

This is, however, the first U.S. Summit in eight years, with President Biden saying he hopes "to continue strengthening our shared vision for the future of U.S.-Africa relations." Paul Tilsley covers Africa for Fox News Digital. He has experience in 87 countries in producing, reporting, editing, direction, and live, business news feature producing, reporting, and writing for Fox Business, Fox News Channel, CNN, Sky News, BBC and ITN among others. He can be found on Twitter @paultilsley

This is happening against a massive cloud of Islamist terrorism sweeping the African continent. Africa is now the center of operations for both Islamic State and al Qaeda. Insidious economic infiltration and inevitably accompanying coercion, under the guise of assistance by Russia and China, is rampant, and Kremlin-sponsored private armies are operating brazenly in an increasing number of countries as Russia strips them of their mineral wealth.