The president arrived Monday in Angola, his first trip to Africa as president and one of his final foreign trips in office.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — President Joe Biden is finally making his long-promised visit to Africa to showcase a U.S.-backed railway project in three countries that he has pushed as a new approach in countering some of China’s global influence.

Joe Biden sets off for Angola on Sunday on a trip that will deliver on a promise to visit Africa during his presidency and focus on a major, U.S.-backed railway project that aims to divert critical minerals away from China.