Clinton arrives today

Former President Clinton will visit Africa next week to promote efforts to curtail the AIDS epidemic and encourage economic development.

Clinton leaves Sunday and will visit Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Mozambique and South Africa, his office said Friday. He returns Sept. 29 to the United States.

During his trip, Clinton will meet with Presidents John Kufuor of Ghana, Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique. He also will endorse establishment of a legal property system that can create capital for the poor, tour AIDS prevention programs for youth and deliver a speech on the future of Africa.

Clinton also will pay a private visit to former South African President Nelson Mandela at Mandela's provincial home. The two former presidents serve as co-chairmen of the International AIDS Trust.

In 1998, Clinton became the first U.S. president to tour Africa while in office. He visited the continent again in August 2000 and returned a third time in April 2001, after he left the White House.

In Ghana

Bill Clinton would on Monday be the Guest of Honour at the launching of the Foundation for the Building of Capital of the Poor, a programme devised to assist in mobilising the assets held by the poor to facilitate their economic development.

President John Agyekum Kufuor would launch the Foundation, which would also establish a regional training institute in Accra for the benefit of other African countries interested in property reform programmes. A release from the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) in Accra, signed by Ms Ursula Owusu, Governance Co-ordinator, said the Foundation, which was supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNPD) was developed jointly through the MOJ and the Peru Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD).

A Peruvian Economist and Author Dr Hernando Soto, who founded the ILD, and former US President Clinton, the Patron of the Foundation, would both arrive in the country on Sunday, September 22 to the attend the launching.
Clinton to visit Africa to promote AIDS prevention, economic development
The Associated Press 9/20/02 4:55 PM
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