Obama hosts leaders of four African countries...

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NEWS

By KEVIN KELLEY

Posted Saturday, March 30 2013 at 21:55

IN SUMMARY

• Conferring with President Obama at the White House on March 28, were the Prime Minister of Cape Verde - José Maria Neves, Presidents Joyce Banda of Malawi, Macky Sall of Senegal, and Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone.
• The meeting was to reward them for their support for US interests in Africa.
• The meetings also sent a signal to other African leaders that close relations with the world's superpower are contingent on maintaining stability and respecting the rule of law.

US President Barack Obama met with four leaders of African countries that the US has strong partnerships with.

Conferring with President Obama at the White House on March 28, were the Prime Minister of Cape Verde - José Maria Neves, Presidents Joyce Banda of Malawi, Macky Sall of Senegal, and Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone.

The meeting was to reward them for their support for US interests in Africa.

The meetings also sent a signal to other African leaders that close relations with the world's superpower are contingent on maintaining stability and respecting the rule of law.

Following an armed rebel takeover of the Central African Republic on March 24, two days later State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said the Obama administration is reviewing $2.2 million in aid the US provides to that country.

Some $1.6 million funds a USAid initiative to protect the rights of small-scale diamond miners in the CAR.


Mr Ventrell said the US also spends $22 million a year on humanitarian programmes in the CAR. That funding, funnelled through NGOs, will not be affected by the rebel conquest, the spokesman said.

President Obama praised the trend in Africa toward democratic development.

"What we've learned over the past several decades," President Obama said following his talks with the four leaders, "is that when you've got good governance - when you have democracies that work, sound management of public funds, transparency and accountability to the citizens that put leaders in place - it is not only good for the state and the functioning of government, it's also good for economic development because it gives people confidence, it attracts business, it facilitates trade and commerce."

The leaders are the latest from Africa whom President Obama has hosted over the past four years.

 

[nngu007]

Oh Ndio Maana Hillary Clinton Mwaka Jana alikwenda kumtembelea Joyce Banda... Mmm...

 

[Kaka Blaza]

Kwanini iwe hoja iwapo JK hakualikwa? Afrika ina nchi 50 na BO halazimiki kujifungia kwenye nchi hii ya kwetu tu.

 

[bushman]

Kwani kikwete ni rais kikwete si mtu wa kujipendekeza tu ulaya.

 

[Candid Scope]

Kwani kikwete ni rais kikwete si mtu wa kujipendekeza tu ulaya.

Wamarekani wameshamshtukia Kikwete hana mvuto kwao tena, hata ile chekacheka wameshamtilia shaka.

 

[TUJITEGEMEE]

Kwanini iwe hoja iwapo JK hakualikwa? Afrika ina nchi 50 na BO halazimiki kujifungia kwenye nchi hii ya kwetu tu.

Mimi niadhani ni hoja ukizingatia idadi ya safari alizozifanya rais wetu nchini marekani chini ya rais Obama.

 

[Kigogo]

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[Lisa Rina]

Akienda akisign mikataba shida!asipoenda napo shida !tumuonee huruma jamani!lawama tuu!

 

[mwaikenda]

Mr dhaifu

 

[Scofied]

Mr fastjet roho itamuuma sana...

 

[Honolulu]

Mr fastjet roho itamuuma sana...

Ni undumila kuwili wake ndio unamponza!!!

 

[Kanundu]

Huyu wetu kingredha tatizo ataanza mambo yake ya tanzania agrikacha is hand to mouth then eeeerrrrrr....kwekwekwekweeeeee you know kilimo kwanza

".......................... Manufacturing teachers ............................"

 

[artorius]

ile conference ya obama ilikuwa inahusu good governance and democracy,sasa ile report iliyokuwa presented in u.s. congress na LHRC kuhusu mauaji ya raia,mwandishi wa habari mwangosi,kutekwa kwa dr.ulimboka na issue ya iran imemuharibia sana mkulu aliyekuwa anajisifu kwenye jamii ya kimataifa kwamba tz is a democratic nation,ndo maana hakuitwa.Jaribu kujiuliza,when obama took office for the first time as a U.S. President,he met him in the white house,jk being the first african leader to meet obama at that particular time,na ccm wakajaisifu sana bungeni kwa hili wakisema ni kwasababu ya good governance ya jk,leo hii mbona hakuitwa.

 

[Lambardi]

Alipozipa meli za Iran usajili wa Tanzania...US ndipo walipomtoa kwenye list yao.....na sasa ndio maana anakimbilia zaidi China!wadau wa diplomasia wanasema kama hakubaliki tena Washington ndio maana hata safari za kule hakuna tena!

 

[Songoro]

U super star shida sana, akialikwa shida asipoalikwa shida,

 

[kabindi]

Huo ndiyo ujinga wa wabongo! Kualikwa na Obama ndiyo nini? Kusifiwa kwa kutukuza interest za Marekani? acheni ushamba. Jengeni nchi yenu!

 

[Omuregi Wasu]

Huo ndiyo ujinga wa wabongo! Kualikwa na Obama ndiyo nini? Kusifiwa kwa kutukuza interest za Marekani? acheni ushamba. Jengeni nchi yenu!

Siyo lazima uchangie kama huna point

 

[figganigga]

huwa anaenda kuonana na wasanii wakina 50cent na boys2men. So taifa la marekani halimtambui may be. mia

 

[Rock City]

Bora Chinese kuliko US (Americans).

 

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Huo ndiyo ujinga wa wabongo! Kualikwa na Obama ndiyo nini? Kusifiwa kwa kutukuza interest za Marekani? acheni ushamba. Jengeni nchi yenu!

Kwa MCHINA anakupa MKOPO wa SIRI haujui nini UMEKISALIMISHA kwao; Angalau Mmarekani Anakusainisha UCHUNGU kwenye MEZA plain and clear the WORLD 2 see... Sasa HAPO sijui Interest za Nani zinatukuzwa sana... sirisiri au open book