The First Lady of the United States of America, Mrs. Melania Trump, has arrived in Ghana today Tuesday, October 2, 2018 to start a four-country tour of Africa.
Mrs Trump’s plane touched down at the Jubilee lounge of the KIA at exactly 10:06 am on Tuesday.
The US first lady was welcomed by the First Lady of Ghana Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo with traditional drummers and dancers at the Kotoka International Airport in the capital, Accra.
But another compared her unfavourably to former First Lady Michelle Obama who was warmly received with her husband on a trip in 2009.
She will leave Ghana on October 4 and visit Malawi, Kenya and Egypt, to promote the First Lady’s ‘Be Best’ campaign, which she launched in May 2018.
The campaign is aimed at promoting the well-being of the youth and also advocates against cyberbullying and drug use, in Africa.
Mrs Trump announced her visit at a reception for spouses of world leaders, held on the sidelines of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly, in New York.
The visit is being organised in partnership with the United States Aid Agency (USAID) and will involve the four countries, described by Mrs Trump as ‘four beautiful and very different countries in Africa’, who have worked closely with the USAID in various areas.
On March 20, she met with top executives of technology companies including Amazon, Google, Twitter, Snap and Facebook, to discuss the issue of cyberbullying and how it affects children.
Mrs Trump, born Melanija Knavs in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, on April 26, 1970, is the wife of Donald Trump, who was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America in January 2017.
Melania moved to the US in 1996 to pursue her modelling career and became a US citizen in 2006 after she married Donald Trump in 2005.
She is the first naturalized and second foreign-born US citizen to become the First Lady, after Louisa Adams, wife of the sixth president, John Quincy Adams.
Mrs Trump came from a humble background, born to an Austrian father, Viktor Knavs, who worked as a car dealer, and a Slovenian mother, Amalija, who worked as a patternmaker at children’s clothing manufacturer, Jutranjka, in Sevnica.
See more photos from her arrival below:
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they are wearing kokonte too
Mrs Rebecca Akufo Addo never disappoints. Truly a lady, looking so gorgeous
when are going to stop this ***barred word*** of parading our kids to welcome foreign dignitaries?
Tony thank you. I live in the United States, There is no way school kids will go to airport to welcome any first lady.
Samira Bawumah should welcome her with swag not this old school with old fashion miss it does not suit her at all.
The First Lady is here because of the Ghanaian child, st least that’s what we’re made to understand. So there nothing wrong to let the children welcome her. Who know she might touched by seeing the kids even more.
This is the real First Ladies of our time not the one I knew with half baked English
oh Melania is here, look at our beautiful first lady in her beautiful African print. nice one bi saa
Why the hell are school children at the airport. Thought we've moved past that. Oh Ghana. Aren't they suppose to be in the classroom learning by this time?