Barack Hussein Obama

As in so many areas the expectations are that President Barack Obama's Africa policy will be a break with the past...

The spur is Barack Obama's election and the expectation that he will launch important policy initiatives in Africa – and that for the first time the US has a president with a clear commitment to the continent...

A retired Air Force General who accompanied then-Senator Barack Obama on a six-nation African tour in 2006 Gration is the type of cerebral military officer that Obama has drawn into his policy orbit...

The wet and windy weather of Ghana's rainy season will not dampen the warm welcome for United States President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle on 10-11 July...

Expectations are high in Accra that its hosting of President Barack Obama will prompt a rush of United States investment and assistance for Ghana and the region...

US President Barack Obama's appointment of his close political associate Donald Gips as Ambassador shows an emphasis bilateral relations particularly on regional security and energy...

African governments sense a new toughness in Washington’s Africa policy a month before President Barack Obama’s state visit to Ghana on 10-11 July officials have told Africa Confidential...

The 10-11 July visit to Accra of the first African-American President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama is a massive public relations coup for President John Evans Atta Mills's government...

Rapidly following Brown's message were greetings from United States President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as more exotic felicitations from Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi and the Chairman of the Russian Federation's Communist party Gennady Zyuganov...

US President Barack Obama's new Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Johnnie Carson who served as Ambassador to Kampala Nairobi and Harare may prove less indulgent than his predecessor Jendayi Frazer...

In the United States meanwhile President Barack Obama has appointed Air Force Major General J...