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President Barack Obama implores African Union to create opportunities for young people and respect democratic principles. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
US President Barack Obama praises African economic growth in a speech in the Kenyan capital on Saturday. Julie Noce reports.
US President Barack Obama praises African economic growth in a speech in the Kenyan capital on Saturday. Julie Noce reports.
"Our businesses have now added more than 200,000 jobs a month for the past year," says President Barack Obama during an event at a South Carolina college. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
South Africa’s finance minister forecasts the economy will grow by 4.8 percent, a revision to the 5.1 percent growth previously forecast. While presenting the country's 2022 budget to parliament, minister Enoch Godongwana says "Commodity prices... also, violent unrest in July; restrictions imposed to manage the third wave of Covid-19 further eroded the gains made in the first half of the year." SOUNDBITE
Voters in Cape Verde, a bastion of democracy in Africa, go to the polls for parliamentary elections after a campaign dominated by the Covid pandemic and its impact on a tourism-dependent economy. Prime Minister Correia e Silva runs for re-election in this country with a semi-parliamentary system in which the prime minister wields executive power. IMAGES