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Barack Hussein Obama

Date of Birth: 4 August 1961
Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawaii


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Bouquets and brickbats

As soon as Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Chairwoman of the African Union Commission had told President Barack Obama: ‘Although we welcome you as President of the US we also claim you as our own ' he held the attention of assembled officials and regional leaders for his lengthy speech at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa on 27 July...


How to be popular

Djibouti may not have been a port of call for United States President Barack Obama during his recent Africa visit but it is still a vital component of US global counterterrorism policy...


An offering to Obama

The Ethiopian and Kenyan military hope to welcome President Barack Obama to Kenya by capturing the town of Bardhere from the Somali Islamist militia Al Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen...


Shabaab's surge

While Ramadan continues further attacks can be expected Africa Confidential's sources say with targets in Kenya – especially during United States President Barack Obama's visit there – high on the Islamist militia's agenda...


The clock ticks faster

The plan is for him to take key ministers and advisors to the United States for his meeting with President Barack Obama on 20 July...


A nation in waiting

United States' officials are planning to add a stopover in Abuja to President Barack Obama's trip to Kenya and Ethiopia next month we hear...


Ethics question for Obama

On his first trip to Kenya as United States President in July Barack Obama will walk into a bitter controversy over successive United States governments' failure to compensate victims or their families after Al Qaida's August 1998 bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (AC Vol 39 No 19 Seriously though)...


Shame about the list

Some cynics have attributed Kenyatta's late flurry against corruption to the need to show a clean face when United States President Barack Obama comes to visit as expected later in the year...


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