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President Obama To Lecture African Leaders On Gay Rights During Upcoming Visit

Barack Obama
Barack Obama

President Barack Obama is expected in his ancestral home, Kenya, for a state visit. And one of his stated goals is to convince the world’s most homophobic continent to make some structural reforms.

The US Supreme Court legalised gay marriages in a case that has attracted worldwide attention and divided opinions everywhere, earlier this month. Obama, on a trip to the land of his father, has said telling African leaders to shelve discrimination would be top of his agenda.

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Obama Rejects Calls To Revoke Bill Cosby’s Medal of Freedom

Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby

Amidst the sexual misconduct allegations levelled against Bill Cosby, President Barack Obama has rejected the idea to invalidate the actor’s Presidential Honoring Medal of Freedom.

On Wednesday, Obama told reporters at the White House that, “there is no precedent or mechanism for taking back Cosby’s medal.”

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