Once Barack Obama started out on the campaign trail to win the U.S. presidency another route has become well-trodden — to his grandmother’s home in Kenya
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Somali civilians flee fighting, crowd squalid camps
Some of the worst fighting to hit Somalia’s capital city in recent months uprooted nearly 34,000 people in less than a week, according to a United Nations report released Monday.
‘Guilty’ Kenyan aristocrat awaits sentencing over shooting
One of Kenya’s most famous white aristocrats will be sentenced Thursday, after a judge found him guilty of manslaughter for fatally shooting a poaching suspect on his family estate. The case highlights the fractious relationship the country has with its British colonial past, with many Kenyans accusing the government of favorable treatment. The defendant is white; the victim is black.