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Jill Biden marks first tour of Africa as first lady

U.S. first lady Jill Biden on Wednesday opened a five-day, two-country visit to Africa aimed at highlighting the challenges facing women and young people and the food insecurity plaguing the Horn of Africa.

By Associated Press

Feb. 22, 2023

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First lady Jill Biden visits Namibia.
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First lady Jill Biden, arrives at Windhoek's International Airport, Namibia, Wednesday Feb. 22. Dancers, drummers and Namibia's president and first lady welcomed U.S. first lady Jill Biden on Wednesday as she opened a five-day, two-country visit to Africa aimed at highlighting the challenges facing women and young people and the food insecurity plaguing the Horn of Africa.
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First lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian First lady, Monica Geingos at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region.
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First lady Jill Biden, right, at a wreath-laying ceremony at Windhoek's Heroes' Acre, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region.
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First lady Jill Biden, right, attends a wreath laying ceremony at Heroes' Acre in Windhoek Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region.
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First lady Jill Biden, right, attends a wreath laying ceremony at Heroes' Acre in Windhoek Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region.
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First lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian President Hage Geingob, center, and Namibian First Lady Monica Geingos, at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region.
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First lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian President Hagers Geingob, right, at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region.
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Then-first lady Melania Trump places a wreath at one of the dungeon doors at Cape Coast Castle in Cape Coast, Ghana, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. Cape Coast Castle was a "slave castle" used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Mrs. Trump is visiting Africa on her first solo international trip.
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Then-first lady Laura Bush, looks on in Maputo, Mozambique, Wednesday, June 27, 2007, after announced on Wednesday $507 million in assistance would be approved for Mozambique to build roads and boost its battle with malaria, which kills about 150 Mozambicans each day.
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Jill Biden, wife of then-Vice President Joe Biden, third left, and her granddaughter Maisy, 9, second left, walk past a food stall as they visit the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya June 8, 2010. Jill Biden is not a newcomer to Africa. It will be her sixth time in Africa when she arrives in Namibia on Wednesday as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with region.
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Then-first lady Michelle Obama is greeted by traditional dancers as she arrives in Gaborone, Botswana, Friday, June 24, 2011.
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Then-first lady Hillary Clinton speaks to students and parents of the Martin Luther King Jr. School, an all girls school, in Dakar Senegal, March 17, 1997.

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