{"id":22080,"date":"2013-06-24T16:23:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T20:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22080"},"modified":"2013-06-24T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T20:23:31","slug":"pres-obama-to-seek-return-for-investment-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22080","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama To  Seek Return For  Investment In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 <strong>President Barack Obama\u2019s<\/strong> upcoming weeklong trip to Africa will mark his most significant personal investment in the developing region since taking office. The White House is hoping the return on that investment will be an increased foothold for U.S. businesses on a continent where China and other emerging economies are already major players.<\/p>\n<p>Casting a shadow over<strong> Pres. Obama\u2019s<\/strong> trip will be the health of former South African President <strong>Nelson Mandela<\/strong>, who has been in the hospital for two weeks. The White House says it will defer to <strong>Mandela\u2019s<\/strong> family for decisions on whether the anti-apartheid leader will be able to meet with <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to South Africa, <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> will also visit Senegal and Tanzania. He is due to depart Washington on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Barack Obama\u2019s upcoming weeklong trip to Africa will mark his most significant personal investment in the developing region since taking office. The White House is hoping the return on that investment will be an increased foothold for U.S. businesses on a continent where China and other emerging economies are already major players. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}