Obama: build strong institutions to assure democracy

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American president Barack Obama and the us foreign secretary of state Hillary Clinton have urged African states to build strong institutions that would assure democracy, transparency and accountability. Their remarks were calculated to send a message of a need for good governance in the continent, in order to continue getting opportunities to trade with the superpower. This appeared to be a major concern, when Hilary Clinton gave her keynote address to the African growth and opportunity act forum. At the same summit, president Mwai Kibaki pledged a commitment to carrying out major institutional and legal reforms that would make the government more accountable for its actions.

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News & Politics

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• AGOA Summit
• Hillary Clinton

[IveyJnr]

Where are these so called reforms Mr Kibaki "full accountability for government action". Such shameless thugs our politicans are, how do they sleep at night ?

[drsugarcane]

You forget the oil tycoon thugs that have been in the White House for the last eight years obviously we all know where their interests were and the dictators they supported in Africa so please Obama has only been in office 6 months relax....unless u were referring to the last 6 months!

[mkesh]

in the kanu regime blinking was a show of lack of concentration,haaaa haaaaaa at least he is allowed to

[llandshark]

Look at the way that guy behind the President is completely still... That's the way to hold still

[mwenenyaga08]

Its all about making the right choices!Every one in this world is making choices on a dailly basis.Are our politicians making the right ones??Any choices we make lives with us in the future!

[mkesh]

This man is talking about new democartic leadership.......surely.......­.we know how you ended up there.........kenyans compromised their democratic rights for peace and stability.....he better address other issues.

[mkesh]

This man is boldly talking about new Democratic leadership ,surely...........we know how you ended up there for the sake of stability we hav eoptet not to address these issues but let him not think we are ngiri to forget that first......

[karuitha]

I know this, this idea of traditional dancers is way way out dated, it nolonger fun anymore. Just look at the faces in there. Do we really need to keep doing this?

I would be bored out of my skull if I was sat there watching some funnly dressed man banging a drum.

[daddycliff]

The U.S. needs to put its mouth where its action are; for the common denominator among the Sub-Saharan countries that have reaped the most benefit from Agoa are oil producing countries, not good governance and accountability. Nigeria which accounts for nearly half of the total value of exports from Sub-Saharan Africa under Agoa to the USA, is hardly a case study of good governance and accountability. Their own poster child Ghana exported $199M to the USA, compared to Nigeria $33B in 2007.

[Savai333]

1:55 & 1:58 = Attain full accountability for all government actions.