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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Kenya stories: 125 news summaries

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Obama Aunt Can Stay in US Until 2010, Court Rules

Onyango continues effort to appeal deportation order

Apr 1, 09 1:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s aunt has been granted another year in the US, the Boston Herald reports. A judge today set Feb. 4, 2010, as the date for a hearing on Zeituni Onyango's appeal of a 2004 deportation order, clearing Onyango to live in the country until then. "Praise God,... More »

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immigration • Barack Obama • Kenya • appeal • deportation • Zeituni Onyango

President's Half-Brother Hospitalized

Malik Obama undergoes tests for cholera in Kenya

Mar 26, 09 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's elder half-brother has been hospitalized in Kenya amid an outbreak of cholera in the region, reports the AP. Malik Obama, 51, was taken to the hospital Tuesday, and a domestic worker of his was hospitalized for cholera last week. Malik is the son of Barack Obama Sr. and... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • Obama family • cholera

Ancient Footprints
Reveal Path to Humanity

Tracks in Kenya are 1.5 million years old

Feb 28, 09 3:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Scientists have unearthed ancient footprints that reveal humanity's ancestors walked with a modern stride as long as 1.5 million years ago, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. Researchers believe the tracks—left beside a muddy river bank in Kenya and preserved when the river changed course—belong to human ancestor Homo ... More »

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Kenya • archaeology • fossil • anthropology • Homo erectus • prehistoric

Keyes: Obama Isn't a Citizen, and He Isn't President

He stokes conspiracy theories in video

Feb 21, 09 11:22 AM CST
(Newser) - He may be President Obama to you, but don't tell that to Alan Keyes. In a video released yesterday, the ultra-conservative seeks to resurrect conspiracy theories that Obama is not a US citizen and therefore ineligible to be president. Keyes—who lost to Obama in the 2004 Senate race in... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • citizenship • Hawaii • President Obama • birth certificate • Alan Keyes • birther

Somali Pirates Score $3.2M 
Ransom, Release Arms Ship

Pirates receive $3.2M ransom after September hijacking

Feb 5, 09 8:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Crime does pay—to the tune of the $3.2 million ransom that Somali pirates collected today in exchange for releasing a Ukrainian ship they hijacked in September, reports the BBC. The pirates had initially sought $20 million for the arms-laden MV Faina, which had been en route to Kenya.... More »

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Somalia • Kenya • ship • piracy • Ukraine • pirates • weapons • ransom

Kenya Mourns Double Tragedy That Killed 136

Grieving kin blame
poor emergency
response in 2 fires

Feb 2, 09 6:23 AM CST
(Newser) - Kenyans are blaming the government for poor public safety and emergency response as they mourn the loss of 136 people in back-to-back fires at a Nairobi supermarket and on a rural highway. Emergency crews were slow to respond to yesterday's fuel tanker explosion, which came as they were still searching... More »

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Africa • Kenya • oil • death • explosion • poverty • Raila Odinga • fire • mourning • public safety

 Kenya Oil Tanker Blast Kills 111 

Explosion occurred as resident scramble for free fuel

Feb 1, 09 4:49 AM CST
(Newser) - At least 111 people were killed when a truck transporting oil crashed and exploded in central Kenya last night, reports Reuters. The explosion, one of the worst recent disasters in eastern Africa, occurred just as Rift Valley residents crowded around the crippled tanker to gather spilling fuel. Rescuers speculated that... More »

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Kenya • petroleum • explosion • emergency responders • Rift Valley

Obama's Half-
Brother Nabbed for Pot in Kenya

George denies charge, resisted arrest; prez barely knows him

Jan 31, 09 6:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s half-brother has been arrested in Kenya for possessing marijuana, CNN reports. George Obama is being held at a Nairobi police station ahead of a Monday trial after police said he resisted arrest. He denies the charges. “They took me from my home," he said. "... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • marijuana • drug possession • arrest • George Obama • half-brother

 Watershed Vaccine 
 May End Malaria Toll 

If trials work as expected, shots could save millions of children

Dec 9, 08 1:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Scientists have developed a promising vaccine against malaria, a devastating disease that kills a milion people a year, most of them young children. Trials of the breakthrough vaccine enter the final phase next year and it could be widely available by 2012, reports the Los Angeles Times. Successful trials have... More »

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Kenya • medical breakthrough • malaria • Ethiopia • GlaxoSmithKline • Tanzania • vaccine • mosquito • Zambia • World Health Organization • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation • Rwanda • RTS,S • PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative

 Africa Must 
 Oust Mugabe: 
 Kenyan PM 

Power-sharing isn't working in Zimbabwe, Odinga says

Dec 4, 08 2:22 PM CST
(Newser) - Zimbabwe’s unity government is a sham, and the only way to break the deadlock is to force President Robert Mugabe to resign, Kenya’s prime minister said today. “Power-sharing will not work with a dictator who does not really believe in power-sharing,” Raila Odinga told the BBC.... More »

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Kenya • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • South Africa • power sharing deal • power sharing • Jacob Zuma • Raila Odinga

Brits Tortured Obama Patriarch in Kenya Revolt

Granddad was jailed, beaten for 2 years in '50s Mau Mau uprising

Dec 3, 08 9:09 AM CST
(Newser) - British jailers tortured Barack Obama's grandfather during the struggle for Kenyan independence, his family tells the Times of London. Hussein Onyango Obama, who worked as a cook for a British army officer, was arrested in 1949, aged 56, and imprisoned for two years. There he was subjected to daily whippings... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • torture • empire • colonialism • Mau Mau rebellion • Dreams From My Father • Sarah Obama • Obama family

(Newser) - Ordinary citizens who share the last name Obama with the president-elect are seeing goodwill and unexpected perks lately, the Washington Post reports. They might not be able to score Inauguration tickets, but entrance to a swanky nightclub? No problem. Speeding ticket? Fixed. And it’s an exclusive club: The... More »

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Barack Obama • Africa • Kenya • name • surnames • President Obama • Equatorial Guinea

Obama's Kenyan Clan Adjusts to Fame

Media, security forces, and opportunists descend on Kenyan village

Nov 22, 08 6:27 AM CST
(Newser) - The election of Barack Obama has changed the lives of his Kenyan relatives forever, the Los Angeles Times reports. Roughly 400 people in western Kenya can claim kinship to the president-elect, and the clan is attracting huge amounts of attention from the world's media and from fellow Kenyans. Their village... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • Barack Obama Sr. • Kogelo • President Obama

 Tomorrow's 
 Obama Day 
 in Kenya 

Step-grandmother, others hit streets to celebrate

Nov 5, 08 7:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Kenya has declared tomorrow a national holiday to honor Barack Obama’s presidential victory, the BBC reports. “We the Kenyan people are immensely proud of your Kenyan roots,” President Mwai Kibaki said. Obama’s father was Kenyan; his step-grandmother danced and cheered outside her home after the family... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • holiday • Election 2008 • President Obama

  Mating Antelope 
 Show Off Knees. 
 Seriously. 

Sound communicates animal's strength, prevents conflict

Nov 4, 08 1:58 PM CST
(Newser) - Doesn't sound all that sexy, but Africa’s male eland antelope has developed his own way of demonstrating its sexual prowess and warding off rivals. Males click their knees to establish mating rights and avoid brawls: the louder the click, the larger the animal, and the more likely he is... More »

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Africa • Kenya • sex • animal behavior • antelope • mating



 Obama Will 
 Give Aunt Her 
 Money Back 

'Auntie Zeituni' found to be living illegally in US

Nov 1, 08 3:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s campaign will return donations made by his aunt, who was outed yesterday as an illegal resident in the US, the Washington Post reports. Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of the candidate’s late father, lives in a Boston public housing unit and gave $265 to her nephew’s... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • illegal immigrant • Boston • deportation • campaign contributions • Immigration and Customs Enforcement

 Obama's Aunt Is 
 Living Illegally in US 

Kenyan aunt's application for asylum was rejected in 2004

Nov 1, 08 4:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt has been living illegally in the US since 2004, the AP reports. Zeituni Onyango—affectionately referred to as "Auntie Zeituni" in the candidate's memoir—has been living in a Boston housing estate for the last 4 years, despite having been ordered to leave the US... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • illegal immigrant • Boston • deportation • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • Election 2008 • Zeituni Onyango

 Obama 'Auntie' 
 Lives in Boston 
 Public Housing 

Zeituni Onyango trying to stay out of campaign spotlight

Oct 30, 08 10:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Across town from Barack Obama’s Ivy League alma mater, his “Auntie Zeituni” has been living in a public-housing apartment decorated with photos of the Democrat. Zeituni Onyango—a tall, feisty woman Obama writes about meeting in Kenya—works for a stipend as a resident health advocate but made... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • Boston • presidential race • presidential candidates • Election 2008 • Barack Obama Sr.

 Kenya 
 Deports 
 Author of 
 Obama Nation 

Immigration nabs Jerome Corsi ahead
of book launch

Oct 7, 08 8:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The author of the bestselling attack on Barack Obama, The Obama Nation, is being deported from Kenya for lacking the right working papers, the AP reports. Police nabbed Jerome Corsi at his hotel ahead of a book launch. One source said he had been held for accusing the prime... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • deportation • detainee • book • Election 2008 • Jerome Corsi • Obama Nation

 Obama Smears 
 Are Low-Profile 
 Precision Strikes 

Efforts to emphasize Democrat's "foreign-ness" dodge publicity

Sep 24, 08 10:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - This election’s smear campaigns are precision strikes flying under the radar, unlike the publicity assault from the Swift Boat attacks last time around, the New York Times reports. An independent group has run cable ads heavy on racial overtones in Detroit’s suburbs, linking Barack Obama to controversial black... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • advertising • advertisements • Jeremiah Wright • Kwame Kilpatrick • Election 2008

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