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President Obama at the African Union, in Addis Abbeba

"I don't understand why people want to stay so long, especially when they have got a lot of money," said President Obama during a speech to the African Union Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. "Nobody should be president for life." President Obama was speaking in front of the 54-member county African Union during a 5 days trip that took him to Nairobi, Kenya and Addis-Abeba, Ethiopia. He spent the week-end in Kenya, the birth place of his late father, before travelling to Addis Ababa, the seat of the African Union. He is the first seating US President to visit both countries or address the African Union.

He was referring to several African dictators who have chosen to change the Constitutions of their countries, to allow themsleves to stay in power.  President Obama specifically  mentionned the leader of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, who recently managed to change 

President Obama Greets Young People in Kenya

"A politics that's based solely on tribe and ethnicity is a politics that's doomed to tear a country apart," said President Obama during a speech in Kenya. "It s a failure, a failure of imagination." President Obama spent the week-end in Kenya on a visit aimed to deepen U.S. alliances with Kenya on trade, terrorism and wildlife protection.

Apologizing for not visiting his relatives as the traditional customs would require, he referred to the obligations of political officials

South Carolina Rep Jenny Horne asking the House to take the Confederate flag down

She is the descendent of a confederate President and she has been instrumental in taking down the flag of hate and racism.
Yes, the South Carolina House voted on Thursday morning to approve a bill removing the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds. The bill almost failed to pass. The debate lasted more than 13 hours.

Then, in an emotional 4-minute plea, Rep. Jenny Horne, a Republican state representative and descendant of Confederate President