US President Barack Obama landed in Ethiopia on Sunday, beginning a two-day stay and becoming the first American leader to visit Africa's second most populous nation. Air Force One touched down at Addis Ababa's international airport after a short flight north from the Kenyan capital Nairobi, and the president was greeted on the tarmac by Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn
Portraits of
U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Ethiopia's Prime Minister
Hailemariam Desalegn (R) decorate the airport terminal in Addis Ababa
Crowds cheered US President Barack Obama's motorcade as it left the airport in Addis Ababa
The visit will include talks with the Ethiopian government, a key
strategic ally but criticised for its record on democracy and human
rights. Obama will also become the first US president to address the
African Union, the 54-member continental bloc, at its gleaming,
Chinese-built headquarters.
US President Barack Obama will meet with leaders from Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda as well as
Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour in Addis Ababa to try and
build a collective front to end the 19-month-old civil war in South Sudan
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