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Africa must fight corruption, decide own future: Obama

He visits Ghana seeking to lift up the continent of his ancestors

AFP, Ap, Accra
US President Barack Obama said in a keynote speech on Saturday that Africa's leaders must battle corruption and strengthen democracy, but that it is up to Africans to decide their future in tire world.
"Africa's future is up to Africans," Obama said in a wide-ranging speech in the capital of Ghana in which he warned "no country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit the economy to enrich them-sclves", pledged new help to fight disease and said that “conflicts are a millstone around Africa's neck"
Obama said his visit to Ghana Saturday was designed to illustrate that "Africa is not separate from world affairs."
Obama said events in Africa do not lose their effects at the continent's borders and said Africa is a fully integrated part of the global economy.
What happens here has an impact
everywhere," Obama said during a meeting with Ghanaian President John Atta Mills.
Obama scheduled a 21-hour visit to die West African nation to highlight that country's democratic tradition and engagement with the West. During his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office, Obama sought to Lift up the continent of his ancestors while keeping its emotions in check.
Greeted by a rush of excitement on his arrival here, the United States' first black president planned a speech to Ghana's Parliament on Saturday outlining his hope for a future Africa prospering in democracy. Ue was also visiting a hospital and a one-time slave trading post, joined by his wife, Michelle, a great-great granddaughter of slaves.
But his speech was also pitched as a sobering account of Africa's enduring afflictions: hunger, disease, corruption, ethnic strife and s trongman rule.
No big public event was planned in part for fear it could cause a celebratory stampede, as u 1998 stop by President Bill Clinton almost did.
"I can say without any fear of contradiction that all Ghanaians want to see you. 1 wish it were possible for me to send you to every home in Ghana," Mills said, underscoring the US first family's popularity that gave them Page One billing in many of the nation's newspapers.
People lined the streets Saturday morning, many waving at every vehicle of Obama's motorcade as it headed toward a meeting at Osu Castle, the storied coastline presidential state house. One woman emerged from a coffee shop to wave a tiny US flag while others sold posters and T-shirts with Obama's picture. Many billboards lined the roads, including one that showed the president and his wife with the greeting, "Ghana loves you."