UPDATE:Clinton To Visit Kenya, Nigeria In Early Aug-Officials
(Updates with details of other countries to be visited.)
By Will Connors
Special to DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
LAGOS, Nigeria -(Dow Jones)- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will
visit at least five African countries in early August, including Kenya, the
birthplace of President Barack Obama's father, U.S. and Nigerian officials told
Dow Jones Newswires.
Clinton will begin the trip in Kenya, where she will lead a delegation of U.S.
businessmen to a forum of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, meant to
improve U.S.-African trade relations.
Clinton will also visit Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and the fifth
biggest supplier of oil to the U.S., and South Africa, Africa's biggest economy.
Visits to Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Liberia have been
tentatively planned, but details have yet to be finalized, according to the
officials.
Obama visited Ghana earlier this month where he delivered a major speech on
U.S.-Africa policy, and many African countries felt snubbed by his choice of
Ghana.
-By Will Connors, contributing to Dow Jones Newswires; +234-708-246-0459;
connors.will@gmail.com
(Ian Talley in Washington contributed to this report.)
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