In a statement, the White House said that the head of the International Development Finance Corporation, Scott Nathan, will lead the delegation.
Nathan will be accompanied, on behalf of the US government, by the US ambassador to Angola, Tulinabo S. Mushingi, and by the deputy commander for civil-military relations of the US directorate in Africa, Andrew Robert Young.
On Friday, the administration led by Joe Biden made it clear that the United States recognizes João Lourenço as President of Angola, following allegations of electoral fraud by the main opposition party, which were rejected by the Constitutional Court.
After the decision of that court, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, released a statement congratulating Lourenço on his victory in the general elections on August 24th.
"We congratulate President-elect João Lourenço on his election as the next President of Angola. We look forward to working with him to strengthen the crucial relationship that exists between Angola and the United States", said the head of US diplomacy.
According to the final tabulation minutes of the August 24 general elections, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and its candidate, the outgoing President, João Lourenço, won with 51.17 percent of the votes, followed by the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), with 43.95 percent.
With these results, the MPLA elected 124 deputies and UNITA 90 deputies, almost double the 2017 elections.
UNITA and the Broad Convergence for the Salvation of Angola – Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE), which did not elect any deputy, contested the results, but the Constitutional Court dismissed the appeals and last week validated the final results of the elections.
