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African Leaders, Experts, Welcome Biden Presidency, Urge More Africa
Involvement

Anita Powell

   JOHANNESBURG - Analysts and political players in Africa are largely
   welcoming the announcement that Joe Biden has won the U.S. presidency--
   and are now giving him and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris a long
   list of priorities for a continent that, they say, should figure high
   on the next administration's agenda. And, they added: please visit
   soon.

   The statement from the Nelson Mandela Foundation was uncompromising and
   weighty.

   "It is with a sense of relief that we have seen President Donald Trump
   defeated in the US presidential election," the foundation said, adding
   that they are glad they won't have to watch him undermine democratic
   institutions for another four years.

   Mandela was South Africa's first Black president, a man whose tact,
   eloquence, thirst for reconciliation and Nobel Peace Prize put him in
   contrast to the most recent U.S. president, Mandela Foundation CEO
   Sello Hatang told VOA News on Monday.

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