SOUTH AFRICA: U.S. President Barack Obama leaves South Africa aboard Air Force One, bound for Tanzania

Record ID: 459230

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: U.S. President Barack Obama leaves South Africa aboard Air Force One, bound for Tanzania
  • Date: 1st July 2013
  • Summary: CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA (JULY 1, 2013) (REUTERS) AIR FORCE ONE ON TARMAC SECURITY AND SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WAITING U.S. FLAG ON TAIL OF AIR FORCE ONE SECURITY VARIOUS OF PRESIDENTIAL MOTORCADE ARRIVING OBAMA GETTING OUT OF LIMOUSINE AND GREETING OFFICIALS PILOT OF AIR FORCE ONE OBAMA WALKS UPSTAIRS WITH FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA AND WAVES PLANE GUARD OF HONOUR WALKING AWAY PLANE TAXIING ON RUNWAY PLANE TAKES OFF
  • Embargoed: 16th July 2013 13:00
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  • Location: South Africa
  • Country: South Africa
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA1V6ZLEMDYYLT2G0JOWNZ71KTM
  • Story Text: U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday (July 1) left Cape Town aboard presidential jet Air Force One, bound for Tanzania. Obama was in South Africa on the second leg of a three-nation Africa trip including Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania.
    The U.S. leader and his family visited the bleak former prison of Robben Island to pay tribute to ex-inmate and former president Nelson Mandela, now critically ill in hospital.
    The president, the first African-American U.S. head of state, said Mandela's struggle against apartheid paved the way for freedom and opportunity well beyond South Africa's borders.
    In Cape Town, the president announced a $7 billion U.S. initiative to double access to electric power on a continent where only one in three people have electricity.
    This would include the renewal of an agreement to cut tariffs on African exports to the United States.
    While in Cape Town, Obama also visited a health centre to highlight U.S. efforts to combat HIV/AIDS on the continent.
    During that visit, another anti-apartheid veteran, retired Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, told Obama that Africans felt an affinity with him and had high expectations of him.
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