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On Friday, Macky Sall, Head of the African Union, led a delegation on a mission to Russia. They went to beg President Vladimir Putin to lift the Russian blockade on Ukrainian grain exports to spare millions of Africans now on the brink of starvation. Unfortunately, Putin demonstrated once again that he has nothing but contempt… Read more.
Me: Ask Vladimir Putin. During his recent trip to Kenya and Ethiopia, President Obama seized every opportunity to rebuke African leaders for the administrative incompetence and endemic corruption that have kept their countries mired in poverty and strife. But I suspect nothing made them squirm quite like the way Obama criticized their habit of defying… Read more.
On Friday, Barack Obama became the first sitting president of the United States to visit Kenya. For Kenyans, it was a long time coming. But Obama finally gave them the love and recognition they longed for since 2008, when Americans elected this “son of Kenya” president, making him the most powerful man in the world.… Read more.
