“I’ll be honest with you: I’m looking forward to life after being president”, he said, anticipating more time with his family and dropping the “big security detail” once his second and final term ends in about 18 months.
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The president’s advisers reject the notion that Obama’s policy toward Africa is all talk, pointing to the long-term potential of initiatives to boost power access and food security for millions on the continent. The body focuses in continent-wide human rights, conflict resolution and economic development, says Don Connell, a visiting scholar at Boston University’s African Studies Center. The political realist has taken his place. “The choices made today will shape the trajectory of Africa and therefore the world for decades to come”.
His calls to Kenyans to shun ethnic politics and fight corruption will lead nowhere.
Obama’s own State Department cited these problems as well as “alleged arbitrary killings, alleged torture, beating, abuse, and mistreatment of detainees” in its recent human rights report. Whirlwind tours and speeches won’t create a better Kenya.
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Kenya’s deputy president William Ruto still faces crimes against humanity charges at the worldwide Criminal Court (ICC) in relation to the violence.
He also castigated the Ethiopian government for clamping down on the freedom of the press. President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Kenya and Ethiopia, which concluded Tuesday July 28, 2015, was marked by stirring images of throngs of thousands coming out to cheer the motorcade for this first visit by a sitting American president.
Obama emphasised his administration’s efforts to combat world hunger while touring the factory, which is the main supplier of baby food for Ethiopian children. “Because of the AU force in Somalia, Al-Shebab controls less territory, and the Somali government is growing stronger”.
That’s good news for Ethiopia’s government.
Though Obama is popular in East Africa, some optimism about the first Kenyan American US leader has waned. He continued: “As I indicated during my visit to Kenya, the remarkable gains that country has made can not be jeopardised by restrictions on civil society”.
Stunted children learn less in school and usually earn less, trapping them in a cycle of poverty. Ethiopia might not have “presidents for life”, but Hailemariam’s predecessor, Meles Zenawi, served for 17 years before dying in office and being replaced by the party’s chosen successor. When he beseeched the audience to eliminate corruption once and for all.
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“Real economic partnerships have to be a good deal for Africa”.
