**US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in oil-rich Angola on her seven-nation tour of Africa.**During a one-day visit she is expected to seek a greater share in Angola’s oil market for the US and counter China’s growing influence.
Mrs Clinton is due to meet President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and oil industry executives on Sunday in the capital Luanda.
Last year, Angola overtook Saudi Arabia as China’s leading source of crude oil.
The US gets about 7% of its oil from the southern African country.
Although Angola vies with Nigeria as Africa’s biggest oil producer, two-thirds of its population survives on less than two dollars a day.
Mrs Clinton’s top Africa aide, Johnnie Carson, said the secretary of state was going to Angola “to strengthen that relationship with one of Southern Africa’s emerging countries, a country which has enormous economic potential”.
He dismissed talk of US rivalry with China, describing it as a “Cold War paradigm”.
Mrs Clinton travelled to Angola from South Africa where she held talks with President Jacob Zuma in Durban.