Whether Harris or Trump, Africa Must Top the List in 2025, Say Experts

If Washington fails to prioritize strategically important continent, US could be isolated from supplies essential to its prosperity, say analysts.

Ore samples are stacked up at Steenkampskraal rare earth element mine on July 29, 2019, about 50 miles from the Western Cape town of Vanrhynsdorp, South Africa. Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images

JOHANNESBURG—Leading into the U.S. election, analysts who focus on Africa say that in 2025, the new administration should pour resources, investment, and goodwill into the world’s second-largest continent, which they say has been heavily neglected by the United States in the past.

If Washington does not, it risks losing access to materials vital to the world’s future and its own security and progress, they say.