US President Barack Obama Visits Ethiopia Sunday July 26,2015

 

US President Barack Obama arrives in Addis Ababa, on July 26, 2015 as he begins a two-day stay in Ethiopia

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