Barack Hussein Obama

However by the time his successor Field Marshal Abdel Fatah Khalil el Sisi received United States Secretary of State John Kerry on 13 October top of the agenda was US President Barack Obama's effort to build a coalition against Islamic State in Iraq and Shams/Levant (ISIS/ISIL also known as Da'ish or IS)...

United States President Barack Obama offered compelling rhetoric: 'Our citizens keep marching...

Failure in MogadishuUS President Barack Obama has promised to 'degrade and defeat' extremist groups from the Middle East to Somalia notably through aerial attacks and providing organisational support to local allied forces...

In particular he would like to stay close to US President Barack Obama whose multi-billion Power Africa programme is another legacy for both of them...

Britain France Germany and Italy joined President Barack Obama's government in warning against foreign interference in Libya and the threat to the democratisation process...

In February Mark Boulware was appointed as President Barack Obama's special envoy to Casamance...

For many the most emblematic moment of Washington's maiden Africa summit on 4-6 August came at the end of an intense day of economic and commercial debate on 5 August when President Barack Obama sat in on a 15-minute discussion with Takunda Chingonzo a 21-year-old internet entrepreneur from Zimbabwe...

The biggest draw proved to be US President Barack Obama pulling in nearly 50 African heads of state or government in what critics had described as a belated invitation to the continent's leaders...

It was President Barack Obama who ultimately decided to suspend French-backed plans for a US air assault on President Bashar Hafez al Assad's regime in Syria...

On 1 and 2 July the US Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a detailed legal framework for individual financial sanctions with President Barack Obama citing 'activities that threaten the peace security or stability of South Sudan and the surrounding region including widespread violence and atrocities human rights abuses recruitment and use of child soldiers attacks on peacekeepers and obstruction of humanitarian operations [which] poses an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States'...