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> He will be landing in a continent that the US continues to pour billions of dollars into for fossil fuel projects, with seemingly no end in sight despite the president's promises.

> The US government has funneled more than $9bn into oil and gas projects in Africa since it signed up to restrain global heating in the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a tally of official data shows, committing just $682m to clean energy developments such as wind and solar over the same period.

> It would be "Unfair" to prevent Africa exploiting its gas reserves, Macky Sall, Senegal's president, said in May. This stance has been treated warily by climate campaigners and the Biden administration with the International Energy Agency making clear that there can be no new fossil fuel development anywhere in the world if disastrous global heating is to be avoided.

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