His administration could embrace some parts of Joe Biden’s insurance policies, together with the Lobito Hall, a US-led challenge that goals to hyperlink Congo, Zambia and Angola through railroad to export battery metals that may in any other case be monopolized by China. “Strategic initiatives just like the Lobito Hall will proceed and presumably even be elevated,” Peter Pham, Trump’s former particular envoy to the Sahel, stated in an interview. Republicans are additionally more likely to finish parts of the Biden administration’s pro-LGBTQ insurance policies. That may anger rights teams and profit nations like Uganda, which the US kicked out of the African Development and Alternative Act over its crackdown on homosexual rights.