14 S. Sudanese Chosen for Obama African Leaders Program

Fourteen people from South Sudan will take part this year in the Young African Leaders Initiative, begun in 2010 by President Barack Obama. The participants depart for Washington next month. They will travel to American University and other college campuses for a six-week program to learn business entrepreneurship, civic leadership or public management. The 14 South Sudanese will join hundreds of others selected across Africa to participate in the Mandela Washington Fellowship for...

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