Africa: Africans to text Obama during his Ghana trip

Posted 9 July 2009 17:29 GMT

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· África: Africanos escriben mensajes de texto a Obama durante su viaje a Ghana

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Erik discusses Obama's new media strategies for his trip to Ghana: We’re launching an SMS platform to allow citizens to submit questions, comments and words of welcome (in English and in French) . Using a local SMS short code in Ghana (1731) , Nigeria (32969) , South Africa (31958) and Kenya (5683), as well as a long code across the rest of the world*

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