Weather could scuttle Obama visit to African slave site
The White House warned Thursday that President Barack Obama might be forced by weather to skip a Saturday visit to a prominent slave trading site during a visit to Ghana.
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the president’s planned visit to the Cape Castle is “weather permitting” and that his helicopter trip there from the capital city of Accra could be canceled. “It is the rainy season,” Gibbs said. He added that the castle is a four-hour drive, too far to make by car.
The castle was a key location in the slave trade.
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