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Obama Wades Into Kenya Fray

Candidate tells opposition leader in father's homeland he's worried about violence

By Sam Gale Rosen, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 8, 2008 11:54 AM CST

(Newser) – Barack Obama called Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga in an effort to help defuse the bloody post-election standoff in the African nation. "He called to express grave concern over the election outcome," Odinga's spokesman told the AP. Obama's father was from Kenya, where... Read full story »

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