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Today, on the final day of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, Administrator Samantha Power held bilateral meetings with African leaders and joined President Joe Biden and African Heads of State at the Promoting Food Security and Food Systems Resilience session.

Today, at the U.S.- Africa Leaders Summit in Washington D.C., the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is announcing new partnerships to accelerate primary health care in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Nigeria.

The COVID-19 pandemic was a wake-up call and a reminder that more more than a quarter of the world’s population lacks access to handwashing with water and soap, which is critical for preventing the spread of the disease.

There are many culprits behind today’s food crisis, you know them well. The COVID-19 pandemic grinding economies to a halt, splintered supply chains, causing huge spikes in inflation, everywhere it seems. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, holding hostage global supplies of food, fertilizer, and fuel, denying food to the world’s poorest communities – and that’s one of the many conflicts actually that is contributing to hunger around the globe.