Obama toasts to new US-Africa relations in largest leaders dinner

US President Barack Obama’s meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta at the White House may not have been exclusive, as other African leaders also posed with America’s First Family, but it did have a huge political symbolism.

It was clearly a public relations coup for Uhuru after the “choices have consequences” declaration a month to the Kenyan polls last year by a top US official. That remark was interpreted as a caution against electing Uhuru and his deputy William Ruto, while the pair faced International Criminal Court trials.