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She has even more events lined up this weekend, including a safari before she heads home from Botswana, but she has already sat down with South African ex President Nelson Mandela and done pushups with Nobel laureate canada goose factory outlet winnipeg Desmond Tutu. She also went to a Cape Town, South Africa, museum after her planned trip to the notorious Robben Island prison, where Mandela spent 18 years, was canceled because of weather.

CNN caught up with Obama for an interview https://www.nationaalzweminstituuteindhoven.nl during which she discussed some of the high points of her trip:

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