President Barack Obama will visit his father’s homeland for the first time as president,the White House said Monday, fulfilling a promise he made to travel to Kenya before he leaves the White House.
Mr. Obama will visit the east African nation in July for the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit. The event brings together business leaders, non-governmental organization workers and government officials and is being hosted in sub-Saharan Africa for the first time.
The trip will “continue our efforts to work with countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Kenya, to accelerate economic growth, strengthen democratic institutions, and improve security,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Monday.
The president last visited Kenya in 2006 when he was in the Senate, but so far hasn’t visited there during his time as president.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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