500 African youths to benefit from new US Fellowship programme, says Obama

U.S President Barack Obama on Saturday in Johannesburg announced a new fellowship programme, which will initially take 500 young Africans to the U.S every year for academic and leadership training.  Obama, who is currently on a state visit to South Africa, said this at a Town Hall Meeting with a cross-section of African youths at the University of Johannesburg’s Soweto Campus, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.