{"id":17129,"date":"2018-10-02T20:25:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17129"},"modified":"2018-10-02T20:25:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:25:14","slug":"melania-trump-opens-africa-tour-in-ghana-with-baby-weighing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17129","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump opens Africa tour in Ghana with baby weighing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US<\/a> First Lady Melania Trump has kicked off her first big solo international trip with a wave, a smile and a baby in her arms, aiming to promote child welfare during a five-day tour of Africa.<\/p>\n

She arrived in the West African nation of Ghana<\/a> on Tuesday after an overnight flight from Washington and quickly made her way to the Greater Accra Regional Hospital.<\/p>\n

The first lady saw how babies are weighed – they’re placed in sacks that are then hung from a hook attached to a scale.<\/p>\n

She also watched a nurse demonstrate how vitamins are administered to babies by mouth and toured the neonatal intensive care unit.<\/p>\n

Melania Trump also cradled an infant and declared the baby a “beautiful boy” as she handed him back to his mother.<\/p>\n

Mothers at the hospital for her visit received gifts of teddy bears nestled in white baby blankets, personally handed out by the first lady, according to her spokesperson, Stephanie Grisham.<\/p>\n

The items carried the logo of “Be Best,” the child well-being initiative Melania Trump launched last May.<\/p>\n

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Melania Trump\u00a0is greeted by Ghana’s first lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo in Accra [Francis Kokoroko\/<\/span>Reuters]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

‘Warm and gentle’<\/h2>\n

The first lady did not make a speech but those who met her said afterwards that unlike her mysterious public image she was “warm” and “gentle” in the flesh.<\/p>\n

“She’s very friendly, easy-going and interactive,” said Rabiu Fauziya, a 28-year-old paediatric nurse who helped show Trump the neonatal room in the hospital.<\/p>\n

The first lady also had a private tea with her Ghanaian counterpart, Rebecca Akufo-Addo. They exchanged gifts.<\/p>\n

The women met for the first time at the UN General Assembly last month at which President Trump railed against globalism, earning him stern rebukes from world leaders.<\/p>\n

The US first lady also plans to visit Malawi<\/a>, Kenya<\/a> and Egypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She has typically stayed out of the spotlight since her husband became president yet she has made headlines for rare public appearances.<\/p>\n

In June, she made a surprise visit to Texas to visit detained children at the Mexican border, wearing a jacket emblazoned with the words “I really don’t care. Do U?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US First Lady Melania Trump has kicked off her first big solo international trip with a wave, a smile and a baby in her arms, aiming to promote child welfare during a five-day tour of Africa. She arrived in the West African nation of Ghana on Tuesday after an overnight flight from Washington and quickly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}