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Too little, too late? U.S. president Joe Biden has departed for Luanda, Angola with the mission of promoting a railway project called “The Lobito Corridor” that connects the port city of Lobito with the city of Ndola , capital of the Copperbelt province in Zambia. The project is not actually new, but an improved version of a railway originally designed and constructed between the first three decades of the the twentieth century, during the Belgian rule of the neighboring country Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly known as the Belgian Congo. At that time, Angola was under the dominance of the Portuguese Monarchy. Mr. Biden is promoting now a project that was, in fact, promoted before by other powerful nations with interests in the region. It was once sponsored by the Portuguese and Belgian Monarchies, then by the Chinese foray in the African continent that begun after the independence in the seventies and now by the Americans. Apparently, the visit is part of an intentio...