President Obama’s official timetable for Kenya and Ethiopia

Daniel Berhane in Addis AbabaEthiopiafeaturedKenyaNewsPolitics and Legal Thursday, July 23, 2015 @ 11:41 am

President Barak Obama is slated to leave Washington later this week for Kenya and Ethiopia.

Here is his program as provided by National Security Advisor Susan Rice.

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On Saturday, the 25th of July, the President’s trip will start in earnest on Saturday morning, where he’ll open up the 6th Annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit co-hosted by the U.S. and Kenya. I expect the President will have an opportunity also to pay tribute to the victims and the survivors of the 1998 embassy bombings, which targeted our embassy not only in Nairobi, but also in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Saturday, the Kenyan government will host the President for a bilateral program, including a meeting and press conference and state dinner.

On Sunday, the President will deliver remarks to the Kenyan people. We’ll have additional details on the thrust of his remarks in the coming days. But you can expect him to speak to the broad themes in our relationship with Kenya and its people.

The President will also take part in a civil society event to highlight civil society’s contributions to development, prosperity and democratic institutions in Kenya. And he will open the event with remarks and engage in a discussion with civil society participants, primarily around the topics of wildlife trafficking, girls’ education, and countering violent extremism.

And late in the day on Sunday, we’ll head to Ethiopia.

On Monday, in Ethiopia, the President will take part again in a bilateral program with the government of Ethiopia, including an arrival ceremony, bilateral meetings with the President and the Prime Minister, as well as a press conference with the Ethiopian Prime Minister and a state dinner. I also expect that the President will take part in a summit meeting with a handful of regional leaders on shared priorities, particularly the crisis in South Sudan and regional counterterrorism issues.

On Tuesday, our final day, the President will participate in a civil society roundtable, and he will speak before the African Union, which, as you know, is headquartered in Addis.

The President will hold a bilateral meeting with the chairwoman of the African Union Commission and during that day will also have the opportunity to highlight some of our sustainable development initiatives, including in food security, as well as the work we’re doing to deepen economic and trade cooperation with Ethiopia in the broader region.

[Then later that day The president departs for Washington]

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Semhal says:

Thursday, July 30, 2015 @ 4:37 am at Thu, 30 Jul 2015 04:37:13 +0300

Ethiopia broke the record as having by far the largest number of sex workers in the continent.

Ethiopians are known to be the most beautiful people of all black people as study shows. Most black people lovers would definitely like to get their hands on Ethiopians as the current Ethiopian so called government pimp is encouraging. It was bad enough the government was cheated into agreeing to pimp the ladies to the Arab world .The then Prime Minster of Ethiopia Meles Zenawi who also happen to be my father admitted he was wrong for allowing such an error to take place even before it back fired violently, to make matters worse now the current leaders are pimping the boys .

President Barack Obama has been using his time in Africa to advocate for the rights of LGBT people..Obama was criticized by Kenya's President Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto but not the Ethiopian leaders regarding Obama's stand on LGBT rights .

Anti-Gay Ethiopians Freaked Out as Rainbow Welcomes President Obama while the Ethiopian government praised the rainbow sharing the photos to gay right movement activists in the world.

The photo was taken and posted by Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was captioned: . Ethiopia is known to have the largest number of sex workers in the continent . Both male and female prostitution by people as early age as nine years old is being encouraged by the government because it generates foreign currency which the government officials are determined to acquire at whatever cost, regardless the damage it is doing to the Ethiopian health , culture , tradition , society and values.

Many people that went back to the country decades later are saying Ethiopians lifestyle and values have changed totally 100% mostly to the worst since TPLF transformed it to the junkyard/toilet of the world.I am starting to think they are right. My dad knew the track the government was heading is not correct but he was silenced before he changed the track.

Even president of Kenya Kenyatta responded during the same press conference, saying that despite the U.S. and Kenya sharing some values such as “love for democracy, entrepreneurship [and] value for families,” there are some things Kenyan culture and society do not accept, and calling gay rights a “non-issue.”

“The fact remains that this issue is not really an issue that is in the foremost mind of Kenyans,” Kenyatta said.

Homosexuality is illegal in Kenya, as it is throughout most of the African continent. Gay sex, defined in the Kenyan penal code as “carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature,” is criminalized with a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison. The State Department highlighted discrimination against LGBT persons in Kenya in its annual human rights report this year and said discrimination and violence against LGBT groups is “widespread.”

Kenyan media reports that senators and church leaders were encouraged by Kenyatta’s “firm but respectful” stance on gay marriage.
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Evan Wolfson, founder and president of Freedom to Marry, the New York–based nonprofit supporting marriage equality, tweeted his support for Obama’s comments supporting LGBT rights.

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