US-Africa leadership summit stumbled on fulfilling its nobler tenets
Security teams for two African leaders cracked skulls — literally — at the White House’s big leadership summit. That should never be allowed to happen again.
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Security teams for two African leaders cracked skulls — literally — at the White House’s big leadership summit. That should never be allowed to happen again.
The entry of US President Barack Obama in 2009 was characterised by inflated and buoyant expectations by most Africans that the Washington song would be sweet melody for the rest of the continent.
U.S. President Barack Obama is hosting a summit of African leaders in an effort to strengthen American ties with the continent. But Zimbabwe, which desperately needs investment from abroad, will not be represented because of President Robert Mugabe’s tainted human rights record.
African leaders are facing a dilemma over whether to boycott a landmark US-Africa summit next month in solidarity with President Robert Mugabe who has been snubbed by President Barack Obama.
ZANU PF has stated it is “not bothered” by the US decision not to invite Robert Mugabe to a landmark summit, set to be hosted by Barack Obama later this year.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will invite 47 leaders to a landmark US-Africa summit in August, seeking to widen US trade, development and security ties with an increasingly dynamic continent to which he traces part of his ancestry.