Obama Family Heads to Africa Amid Mandela Gloom

Publisher:
Agence France-Presse
Publication Date:
26 June 2013
Tags:
Africa, South Africa, United States, Canada and Africa

US President Barack Obama and his family headed to Senegal as part of a long awaited first major tour of Africa Wednesday, just as the world prepares to bid a reluctant farewell to Nelson Mandela.

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