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Obama Talks to AllAfrica at the White House - Part 1 (video)
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U.S. President Obama met with AllAfrica reporters Charles Cobb, Jr., Reed Kramer and Tamela Hultman at the White House to discuss issues facing ...
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Political Punch:  Kenya Dig It? President Obama Talks Africa, Chastises Politics in Late Father's Homeland

techPresident:  Obama's Ghana Strategy: Use New Media Tools, But Keep the Old

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Kenya Dig It? President Obama Talks Africa, Chastises Politics in Late Father's Homeland
Political Punch — Previous | Main Kenya Dig It? President Obama Talks Africa, Chastises Politics in Late Father's Homeland July 05, 2009 4:23 PM In anticipation of his Friday trip to Ghana, his first visit as president to sub-Saharan Africa, President Obama gave an interview to AllAfrica.com in which he criticized his late father's home country, Kenya, and explained why he's visiting Ghana on this trip. "Well, part of the reason is because Ghana has now undergone a couple of successful elections in which power was transferred peacefully, even a very close election," the president said. "I think that the new president, President Mills, has shown himself committed to the rule ...

Obama's Ghana Strategy: Use New Media Tools, But Keep the Old
techPresident — President Barack Obama's two-day trip to Ghana this Friday and Saturday -- his first trip to Africa south of the Sahara since taking office in November -- is already setting off considerable excitement on the continent. And that's the case even though the trip is a very brief pop-in to the West African country. Tacking on the trip to the end of his travels to Moscow and then to Italy for the G8 summit, Obama will be in Ghana for some part of July 10th and 11th. Only some small segment of Ghana's 23 million people (not to mention Africa's near one billion people) will be able to see Obama in person ...

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