Activists express anger at US president’s trip to country widely criticized for human right abuses. Global Voices report, The Guardian Barack Obama during a to Wajir in Kenya, close to the Ethiopian border, before he was elected US president in 2008. Photograph: Stringer/AFP/Getty Images Barack Obama’s decision to visit Ethiopia has shocked human rights activists, who
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US President Barack Obama’s last trip to Africa before his term ends will take him to Kenya and Ethiopia, where he’ll be the first sitting US president to visit. Obama first toured Africa nearly two years ago, making stops in Senegal, Tanzania, and South Africa. Obama’s decision to stop in Ethiopia has surprised human rights
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US President Barack Obama speaks following a forum with regional and US business leaders in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 1 July 2013 Ethiopia will now feature in Mr Obama’s final official African tour Barack Obama will become the first sitting US president to visit Ethiopia, the White House says. Mr Obama will travel to the
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In July 2012, an Ethiopian court charged the prominent journalist Eskinder Nega with conspiring to commit terrorist acts. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison under a broad and ill-defined law. His crime? Writing about the Arab Spring and calling for peaceful protests. A frequent critic of the government and a prominent journalist, Nega
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Gayle Smith, President Barack Obama’s nominee to run the U.S. Agency for International Development, boasts a glowing list of credentials after spending two decades in Africa as an aid worker and award-winning journalist. But to critics, she is a sympathizer of repressive regimes in Africa who has done little to improve living conditions for people
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By Andrew Beatty Washington (AFP) – Barack Obama will make a long-awaited return to Kenya this July, visiting his father’s homeland for the first time since becoming US president, the White House announced Monday. During the much-delayed visit, Obama will attend a summit to encourage entrepreneurship and meet the country’s controversial leader Uhuru Kenyatta.
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By Josh Rogin Not waving at you, Yemen. Tonight, I attempt to translate for you the foreign policy related portions of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address: Obama: I believe in a smarter kind of American leadership. We lead best when we combine military power with strong diplomacy; when we leverage our power
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NEW YORK (AFP) – For a second year in a row, Russian President Vladimir Putin has beaten Barack Obama to the title of world’s most powerful leader as ranked by Forbes. In a year in which Russia annexed Crimea, stoked a conflict in Ukraine and clinched a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline deal with China that Forbes called the
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Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Obama: Assad “protected” Christians in Syria: Washington – For the first time in history, five Christian Patriarchs representing Christian communities in the Middle East visited the White House to discuss the protection of Christians in the Middle East with President Obama and National Security Advisor Susan Rice. In Defense of Christians President
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January 22, 2014 VOA FILE – President Barack Obama, followed by first lady Michelle Obama, in Tanzania, July 1, 2013 during his week-long trip to Africa. President Barack Obama will host a summit with African leaders in a bid to…
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