U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady MIchelle Obama are welcomed by Senegalese President Macky Sall and his wife, First Lady Marieme Faye, upon their arrival in Dakar on Wednesday night.
President Sall and President Obama held a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Dakar beneath a tent made of their two countries' flags symbolically stitched together.
The two heads-of-state addressed a variety of topics ranging from gay rights to regional security and private investment.
President Obama holds a young Senegalese boy during his visit to Goree Island, a historic location associated with the slave trade.
President Obama looks out of a window of a building during his tour of Goree Island in Senegal.
President Obama with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Raj Shah at a Feed the Future Technology Marketplace event in Senegal.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Senegalese President Macky Sall during the playing of the U.S. National Anthem at a departure ceremony held at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar.
President Obama, followed by President Macky Sall and First Lady Michelle Obama, greets Senegalese cabinet officials before boarding Air Force One.
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wave to President Macky Sall and his cabinet officials from Air Force One before departing to South Africa.
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