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Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Africa’

President Obama Goes to Africa

by Marcus Noland | July 10th, 2009 | 01:57 pm

When President Obama arrives in Ghana Friday night he will be the third consecutive American president to visit this small West African country. The political optics from a White House perspective are straightforward: Ghana is a stable, English-speaking democracy relatively close to the President’s other stops in Europe, and its relative [...]

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