Obama the African builds continental legacy that mixes business with pressure


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Issue 305 - 24 Jul 2015 | 5 minute read

The concluding two years of Barack Obama’s mandate promises a busy agenda in which key elements of the presidential agenda will include delivering on the promise of his Power Africa initiative, working to strike a realistic deal on carbon emissions with China and other stakeholders at the COP21 climate talks and consolidation of the nuclear deal with Iran and wider efforts to stabilise the Middle East. In the period to January 2017, Obama has enough policy initiatives still in his locker to see off his many critics who already deride him as a ‘lame duck’ president – all too often without any substance other than the certainties engendered by partisan politics and prejudice, inflated by the oxygen of Twitter.

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