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President Obama Heads to Ghana on First Official Trip to Sub-Saharan Africa

President Obama Heads to Ghana on First Official Trip to Sub-Saharan Africa

President Obama arrives in Ghana today on his first official trip to Sub-Saharan Africa since becoming president. He is expected to meet Ghana’s President John Atta Mills today and speak to the country’s parliament on Saturday, in what is expected to be a major policy address outlining US policy on Africa. Why Ghana? Some say it has to do with the recent discovery of oil in Ghana. A quarter of US oil imports are expected to come from West Africa by 2015, according to estimates by the National Intelligence Council. [includes rush transcript]

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