美第一夫人非洲之行首站加納

U.S. first lady Melania Trump is in Ghana at the start of a tour of Africa — her first major solo international trip since her husband became president.

Trump landed in Ghana Tuesday morning and visited the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, where she saw babies being weighed and passed out blankets and teddy bears donated by the White House.

The White House says her trip — which will also take her to Malawi, Kenya and Egypt — will "focus on maternal and newborn care in hospitals, education for children, the deep culture and history woven into each African country, and how the United States is supporting each country on its journey to self-reliance."

Child welfare has been the focus of Mrs. Trump's "Be Best" campaign launched earlier this year.

Her five-day trip could be complicated by the actions and words of her husband, who has referred to Africa in vulgar terms.

Joshua Meservey, a senior Africa policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation, however, believes President Trump's words will not affect the first lady's Africa visit.

"I think the U.S.-Africa relationship is much bigger than the president's comments, and it's been going on for decades and decades." Meservey added, "Frankly, I suspect the vast majority of average Africans have not heard of any of those dust-ups. It's very much an elite preoccupation."

Melania Trump is following in the footsteps of other first ladies who have visited the African continent. Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Michelle Obama traveled to the continent multiple times.美國第一夫人梅拉尼亞在她的非洲之行第一站加納訪問，這是她在特朗普擔任總統以來首次獨自大型出訪。

梅拉尼亞週二早上乘飛機抵達加納後，參觀了大阿克拉地區醫院。在那裏她觀看了嬰兒被稱重，並將白宮捐贈的毯子和泰迪熊分發出去。

白宮表示，梅拉尼亞的非洲之行還將包括馬拉維、肯尼亞和埃及，此行將“專注於醫院的孕產婦和新生兒護理、兒童教育，深深融入每個非洲國家的歷史和文化，以及美國如何支持每個國家實現自力更生。“

兒童福利一直是特朗普夫人今年早些時候推出的“成爲最佳”運動的焦點。

有觀察人士認爲，她此次的五天外訪可能因特朗普總統以前對非洲的不敬言辭等行爲而變得複雜。

不過，傳統基金會非洲高級政策分析師梅瑟維認爲，特朗普總統的話不會影響到第一夫人的非洲行程。

梅瑟維說：“我認爲美非關係要遠遠超出總統的評論，而且這種關係已持續了幾十年。”他補充說，“坦率講，我懷疑非洲絕大多數普通人都沒有聽說過那些傳來傳去的話。這只是精英關注的一個焦點。”

梅拉尼亞步其他訪問過非洲大陸的美國第一夫人的後塵。希拉里-克林頓，勞拉-布什和米歇爾-奧巴馬都多次前往非洲大陸訪問。