The President to Visit Kenya
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Barack Obama to Travel to Kenya, Fulfilling Promise of Presidential Visit to Father’s HomelandPresident Barack Obama will visit his father’s homeland for the first time as president,the White House said Monday, fulfilling a promise he made to travel to Kenya before he leaves the White House.
Mr. Obama will visit the east African nation in July for the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit. The event brings together business leaders, non-governmental organization workers and government officials and is being hosted in sub-Saharan Africa for the first time.
The trip will “continue our efforts to work with countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Kenya, to accelerate economic...
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President Obama to Visit KenyaPresident Obama will visit Kenya this summer for an international business conference in his first trip to his father’s homeland since taking office, the White House announced on Monday.
Mr. Obama agreed to attend the annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit meeting to be hosted by the government of Kenya in July, the first time the six-year-old forum will be held in sub-Saharan Africa.
“His trip will build on the success of the August 2014 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit and continue our efforts to work with countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Kenya, to...
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Obama to Make Landmark Presidential Trip to Father's Homeland, KenyaBarack Obama will make a long-awaited trip to Kenya later this year, visiting his father's homeland for the first time since becoming US president six years ago, the White House said Monday.
During the long-promised visit this July, Obama will attend a Global Entrepreneurship Summit in the east African nation, a statement said.
Obama has visited Africa four times since becoming president, but has not visited the country where he still has relatives.
For much of Obama's presidency, Kenya's leaders have been under a cloud of prosecution by the International...
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