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US senator Obama cancels DRCongo visit

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Political rising star Barack Obama, the unique African-American in the US Senate, undergoed a new hitch in his Africa tour when fierce fighting set an end to a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Illinois Democrat, the son of a Kenyan-born economist, was hastily rejigging the schedule for his two-week tour of the continent, after the US embassy in Kinshasa asked him to stay away as fierce factional violence raged, an aide said Wednesday.

"There was a formal solicitation from the US embassy in Congo to suspend the visit because of violence in Kinshasa that has tied down embassy personnel and assets," Obama's spokesman Tommy Vietor said in Washington.

Aides travelling with Obama in Africa were working upon a schedule now being "radically reworked," said Vietor, adding that the senator, who had already injury up a first stop in southerly Africa, ...


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