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Trump to visit Ghana in October

The US First Lady Melania Trump has announced that she will be visiting Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt on her solo tour of the continent in October.

She called them “four beautiful and very different countries” when talking about the details at a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

Mrs Trump said the trip will be organised with the US government’s international aid agency and would be part of her Be Best campaign, which aims to improve child welfare, especially when it comes to online behaviour and addiction to opioids.

“Each of us hails from a country with its own unique challenges, but I know in my heart we are united by our commitment to raising the next generation to be happy, healthy and morally responsible adults,” AP news agency quotes her as saying.

She made this known on Wednesday at a reception for the spouses of foreign leaders and others participating in the annual U.N. General Assembly.

“October 1 will mark the first day of my solo visit to four beautiful and very different countries in Africa,” the Associated Press (AP) reported Mrs. Trump as saying during brief remarks to several dozen guests in a reception room in a building near U.N. headquarters.

The “Be Best” initiative was launched earlier this year to focus on overall child well-being, with an emphasis on opioid addiction and online behaviour.

The countries on her itinerary have worked closely with the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is helping organize the trip.

“Whether it is education, drug addiction, hunger, online safety or bullying, poverty or disease, it is too often children who are hit first, and hardest, across the globe,” Mrs. Trump said. “Each of us hails from a country with its own unique challenges, but I know in my heart we are united by our commitment to raising the next generation to be happy, healthy and morally responsible adults.”

She offered no details on her activities in each country, and did not say when she would be returning to Washington.

Source: BBC

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