Obama declares first US-Africa summit an ‘extraordinary event’

WASHINGTON — The first summit between the US and nearly all African countries broke parts of the usual mould for such events, and was declared an overall success on Thursday. US President Barack Obama, the host and probably the world’s biggest individual draw card, called it an “extraordinary event” when the curtain came down on the three days on Wednesday night, when Washington’s poshest hotels and key government buildings were temporarily but heavily African….more