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Clinton to tackle African hot spots
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 03 - 08 - 2009

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton embarks Monday on a seven-nation tour of Africa to
affirm the Obama administration's commitment to tackling
trouble spots across the continent from Somalia and
Zimbabwe to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and
Liberia, according to AP.
Clinton kicks off the 11-day trip _ her longest overseas
journey to date as the top U.S. diplomat _ in Kenya where
she will address an African trade and development forum,
meet top Kenyan officials and see the beleaguered president
of lawless Somalia's interim government.
Kenya is struggling to overcome political and tribal
divisions laid bare in early 2008 after disputed elections
between the incumbent President Mwai Kibaki and opposition
leader Raila Odinga.
Obama, on a visit to Kenya in 2006, had urged Kenyans not
to let those differences mar their democratic development,
and U.S. officials say Clinton will repeat that message
with Kibaki and Odinga, who became prime minister in a
power-sharing deal that ended the crisis.
Clinton then travels to South Africa, where she will urge
President Jacob Zuma's government to do more to press
neighboring Zimbabwe, in the throes of economic crisis, to
fully implement a political pact between President Robert
Mugabe and former opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
In Pretoria, Johannesburg and Capetown, Clinton will also
underscore the importance of efforts to combat HIV/AIDS and
pledge continuing U.S. backing for health care initiatives
in Africa, some of which have been led by her husband's
private foundation.
Clinton will then visit oil-rich Angola, one of southern
Africa's largest energy producers and a major supplier of
crude and national gas to the U.S. market. Angola has in
recent years been courted by China, and Clinton's trip
there is intended to strengthen its ties with the U.S.
From Angola, Clinton heads to the Democratic Republic of
Congo, which has been wracked by violence since genocidal
forces from Rwanda fled into its eastern mountains 15 years
ago. At its height, the conflict involved half a dozen of
the country's neighbors.
After Congo, the secretary will move on to Nigeria,
another major U.S. energy supplier.
Clinton's last stop will be Cape Verde, a group of nine
small islands off Senegal with a population of less than
half a million that is often hailed as a success story for
African democracy despite its lack of natural resources.


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