U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki, and Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka arrive at the opening of the eighth Africa Growth Opportunities Act Forum in Nairobi on August 5. Clinton said Wednesday that investors will shun African states with weak leaders and economies riddled with corruption and crime.
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Hillary Clinton joins some of Kenya's Masaai traditional dancers before a dinner hosted in her honor, after addressing the Forum of the African Growth and Opportunity Act in Nairobi. The AGOA is a forum of some 40 African states that enjoy trade preferences in the U.S. market on the condition they uphold free elections and markets. Clinton will seek to build ties with three African powers--Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa--and show support for three nations recovering from conflict--Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Liberia--while also stopping in small U.S. ally Cape Verde.
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Hillary Clinton observes a moment of silence after laying a wreath of flowers on the site of the bombings against the U.S. embassy in Nairobi that killed 213 people in 1998. Clinton, who kicked off a seven-nation, 11-day tour of Africa in Nairobi on August 4, took part in a wreath-laying ceremony where she renewed her administration's commitment to combat extremism in the region and elsewhere.
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Hillary Clinton and Somalia's President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed address a news conference at the U.S. embassy in Kenya's capital. Clinton pledged strong support for Somalia's fragile government on Thursday and said that Eritrean interference in the Horn of Africa nation was "unacceptable."
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, during a meeting in Johannesburg, on August 7. While praising South Africa as a leading nation the United States hopes to work with in Africa, Clinton urged the government in Pretoria to press for reform in neighboring Zimbabwe.
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Hillary Clinton and South Africa's Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane on August 7 at the presidential guest house in Pretoria.
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Hillary Clinton watches a choir perform upon her arrival at the Cullinan Care Clinic which caters for HIV patients some 50 kilometers east of Pretoria.
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Hillary Clinton is seen during a visit at a housing project in Khayelitsha, on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, on August 8. On a mission to improve ties with Africa's most prosperous nation, she met Saturday with South African President Jacob Zuma and later toured a housing project she had visited twice in the past.
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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma shakes hands with Hillary Clinton as they address journalists after their meeting in Durban, South Africa, on Saturday. Clinton met with Zuma in a bid to improve strained ties with the country. The pair were holding talks on Saturday in the port city of Durban, a day after Clinton and South Africa's foreign minister pledged to start a new era of cooperation in fighting HIV/AIDS and climate change and begin a strategic dialogue.
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Hillary Clinton prepares to plant a flower as she visits a house under construction, in Khayelitsha, near Cape Town on August 8. While there, she called for a broad alliance with South Africa as she basked in a warm welcome from President Jacob Zuma and streetchildren.
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