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Obama Promotes New Africa Initiative During Tanzania Visit
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July 01, 2013
The president got a rousing, red-carpet welcome Monday at the Dar es Salaam airport, complete with groups of dancers. He was then greeted by thousands of flag-waving Tanzanians as he arrived at the country's State House for talks with President Jakaya Kikwete.
At a news conference, President Kikwete thanked Obama for aid through the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation, which he said has improved his people's access to basic services like drinking water and education.
Obama commended Tanzania's effective use of the funds, while emphasizing his theme on the tour -- that the U.S. wants a relationship with Africa based more on trade than aid.
Tanzania is one of eight countries involved with a new initiative Obama announced Sunday to help boost power production and economies in sub-Saharan Africa.
"Access to electricity is fundamental to opportunity in this age," the president said. "It is the light that children study by, the energy that allows an idea to be transformed into a real business, the lifeline for families to meet their most basic needs. And it's the connection that is needed to plug Africa into the grid of the global economy. You got to have power.''
In addition to Tanzania, the initiative will also launch in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda and Mozambique.
On Sunday, Obama and his family visited South Africa's Robben Island, the prison where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years for fighting to overturn the country's apartheid regime.
The family saw the jail cell where Mandela was held, as well as the limestone quarry where he and other anti-apartheid activists were forced to work.
Obama leaves Tanzania and returns to Washington on Tuesday.
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