Barack Hussein Obama

Britain France Germany and Italy joined President Barack Obama's government in warning against foreign interference in Libya and the threat to the democratisation process...

In February Mark Boulware was appointed as President Barack Obama's special envoy to Casamance...

For many the most emblematic moment of Washington's maiden Africa summit on 4-6 August came at the end of an intense day of economic and commercial debate on 5 August when President Barack Obama sat in on a 15-minute discussion with Takunda Chingonzo a 21-year-old internet entrepreneur from Zimbabwe...

The biggest draw proved to be US President Barack Obama pulling in nearly 50 African heads of state or government in what critics had described as a belated invitation to the continent's leaders...

It was President Barack Obama who ultimately decided to suspend French-backed plans for a US air assault on President Bashar Hafez al Assad's regime in Syria...

On 1 and 2 July the US Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a detailed legal framework for individual financial sanctions with President Barack Obama citing 'activities that threaten the peace security or stability of South Sudan and the surrounding region including widespread violence and atrocities human rights abuses recruitment and use of child soldiers attacks on peacekeepers and obstruction of humanitarian operations [which] poses an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States'...

Then in August United States President Barack Obama will host a grand Africa summit in Washington and security will top the agenda along with economic renewal...

US President Barack Obama had made his much anticipated intervention in the elections via a 6 February YouTube message but he pulled his punches...

Kikwete's recent attempts to grasp the poaching nettle got going during the tour of Africa last July by United States President Barack Obama who joined Kikwete on a platform in Dar es Salaam to launch a US$10 million task force to help ‘build capacity' in Tanzania Kenya and South Africa aimed at the rhino horn and ivory trade...

Both China's President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama visited Africa in 2013 seeking to strengthen political ties...