By Enyichukwu Enemanna
US. Vice President Kamala Harris will on Wednesday, head to Tanzania in continuation of her week-long African tour.
This will however, come after a meeting with Ghanaian women entrepreneurs, to discuss economic empowerment and leadership, which is her very last engagement in Accra, since her arrival on Sunday.
She is expected to fly to the Tanzanian commercial capital Dar es Salaam, where she will meet President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Thursday and fulfil other engagements.
Harris is the latest U.S. government figure to visit African countries, after Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen and Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, as Washington strives to counter-balance growing Chinese and Russian influence on the continent.
While in Ghana, Harris has met President Nana Akufo-Addo, participated in a state banquet, giving a speech to young people about innovation and women’s empowerment, and visited a ‘slave castle’ that was the last stop for thousands of Africans sold into the transatlantic slave trade.
On Friday, she will fly to Zambia, where she will meet President Hakainde Hichilema and participate in other events. She is due to leave Zambia on Saturday and arrive back in the United States on Sunday.
