OBAMA-AFRICA/KENYA-DEPARTURE UPDATE Obama departs Kenya, heads to Ethiopia

Record ID: 146273

  • Title: OBAMA-AFRICA/KENYA-DEPARTURE UPDATE Obama departs Kenya, heads to Ethiopia
  • Date: 26th July 2015
  • Summary: NAIROBI, KENYA (JULY 26, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA ARRIVING AT AIRPORT IN MARINE ONE HELICOPTER VARIOUS OF WOMEN SINGING FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA VARIOUS OF OBAMA LEAVING MARINE ONE/WALKING TO MEET PRESIDENT KENYATTA VARIOUS OF OBAMA GREETING KENYAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS KENYAN AND US FLAG FLYING OBAMA SHAKING KENYATTA'S HAND AND GOING UP AIRCRAFT ST
  • Embargoed: 10th August 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Kenya
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA7K4XWF817UC9SQOXMFX3G00UM
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: U.S. President Barack Obama waved goodbye to jubilant crowds in Kenya on Sunday (July 26), after a historic visit to the African country.
    He told Kenyans on Sunday on his first presidential trip to his father's homeland there was "no limit to what you can achieve" but said they had to deepen democracy, tackle corruption and end exclusion based on gender or ethnicity.
    After political talks on Saturday with President Uhuru Kenyatta on security and business, his speech to a packed sports hall in Nairobi struck a personal note, talking of his own experience and Kenya's in the five decades since independence.
    Kenya was the first leg of a trip to Africa, before he flew to neighboring Ethiopia, one of the continent's fastest-growing economies and headquarters for the 54-nation African Union.
    The nation was brought to its knees by famine in the 1980s but now boasts some of the fastest economic growth rates on the continent.
    But rights groups say economic achievements have come at the expense of political freedoms. The opposition failed to secure a single seat in a parliamentary vote in May. The government says opponents are free to speak their minds.
    National Security Adviser Susan Rice said last week the United States had concerns about Ethiopia's human rights record and the electoral process.
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