53 years old at the time, Obama took the opportunity of a two-nation African visit to address the A.U. Whiles in Ethiopia, he held talks with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and other top government functionaries before proceeding to the A.U. Below are some major quotations from his speech and a series of pictures summarizing his trip to Ethiopia. Tradition and ‘fight’ for the rights of girlsWhen more than 80 percent of new HIV cases in the hardest-hit countries are teenage girls, that’s a tragedy; that sets us back. From Sierra Leone, Ghana, Benin, to Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, democracy has taken root.

Source: Ethiopian News July 27, 2017 22:52 UTC