{"id":126925,"date":"2015-06-21T18:18:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T18:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=126925"},"modified":"2015-06-21T18:50:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T18:50:59","slug":"barack-obama-to-visit-the-african-union-headquaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=126925","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama to visit the African Union Headquaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United States President Barack Obama will visit the headquarters of the African Union (AU), the continental bloc has said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the AU Obama will visit the union&#8217;s headquaters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in July.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-126932\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AhN5CYAjxuHm4ttfxJ3-2KDmENnev7GKbmAX_QtwgOkS.jpg\" alt=\"AhN5CYAjxuHm4ttfxJ3-2KDmENnev7GKbmAX_QtwgOkS\" width=\"647\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AhN5CYAjxuHm4ttfxJ3-2KDmENnev7GKbmAX_QtwgOkS.jpg 647w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AhN5CYAjxuHm4ttfxJ3-2KDmENnev7GKbmAX_QtwgOkS-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They made the announcement on their official twitter page on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no word of the visit from the US so far but when it happens it will be the first by a sitting US president to the African Union.<\/p>\n<p>Obama, of Kenyan descent has forged strong ties with countries on the African continent since he was first elected as president.<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure as president he has paid visits to several African countries including.Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania and Ghana in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdKwakofi\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EdKwakofi<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States President Barack Obama will visit the headquarters of the African Union (AU), the continental bloc has said. According to the AU Obama will visit the union&#8217;s headquaters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in July. They made the announcement on their official twitter page on Sunday. There has been no word of the visit from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":103881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-126925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}