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Jill Biden makes 6th visit to Africa, her 1st as first lady

U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, right, at a wreath-laying ceremony at Windhoek's Heroes' Acre, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian President Hage Geingob, center, and Namibian First Lady Monica Geingos, at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, right, at a wreath-laying ceremony at Windhoek's Heroes' Acre, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian President Hagers Geingob, right, at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian President Hage Geingob, center, and Namibian First Lady Monica Geingos, at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian President Hagers Geingob, right, at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, right, at a wreath-laying ceremony at Windhoek's Heroes' Acre, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian President Hage Geingob, center, and Namibian First Lady Monica Geingos, at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, right, at a wreath-laying ceremony at Windhoek's Heroes' Acre, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian President Hage Geingob, center, and Namibian First Lady Monica Geingos, at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian President Hagers Geingob, right, at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, right, at a wreath-laying ceremony at Windhoek's Heroes' Acre, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian President Hage Geingob, center, and Namibian First Lady Monica Geingos, at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian President Hagers Geingob, right, at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, right, at a wreath-laying ceremony at Windhoek's Heroes' Acre, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian President Hage Geingob, center, and Namibian First Lady Monica Geingos, at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian President Hagers Geingob, right, at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, right, at a wreath-laying ceremony at Windhoek's Heroes' Acre, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian President Hage Geingob, center, and Namibian First Lady Monica Geingos, at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, left, with Namibian President Hagers Geingob, right, at State House in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden is in the country as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with the region. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich) FILE - Then-first lady Hillary Clinton speaks to students and parents of the Martin Luther King Jr. School, an all girls school, in Dakar Senegal, March 17, 1997. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File) U.S. first lady Laura Bush, looks on in Maputo, Mozambique, Wednesday, June 27, 2007, after announced on Wednesday $507 million in assistance would be approved for Mozambique to build roads and boost its battle with malaria, which kills about 150 Mozambicans each day. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) U.S. first lady Michelle Obama is greeted by traditional dancers as she arrives in Gaborone, Botswana, Friday, June 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool) First lady Melania Trump places a wreath at one of the dungeon doors at Cape Coast Castle in Cape Coast, Ghana, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. Cape Coast Castle was a "slave castle" used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Mrs. Trump is visiting Africa on her first solo international trip. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) FILE - Jill Biden, wife of then-Vice President Joe Biden, third left, and her granddaughter Maisy, 9, second left, walk past a food stall as they visit the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya June 8, 2010. Jill Biden is not a newcomer to Africa. It will be her sixth time in Africa when she arrives in Namibia on Wednesday as part of a commitment by President Joe Biden to deepen U.S. engagement with region. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)
Jill Biden makes 6th visit to Africa, her 1st as first lady