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XXX DON'T USE THIS CAPTION XXX Kenyan McDuffie, a candidate to replace Harry Thomas for Ward 5 city councilmember, comes to cast his vote in the special election with his wife Princess, right, and his two daughters Kesi, 5, and Jozi, 2, at Mt. Bethel Baptist Church on Rhode Island Avenue in northwest, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 15, 2012 (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Kenyan McDuffie, a candidate to replace Harry Thomas for Ward 5 city councilmember, comes to cast his vote in the special election with his wife Princess, right, and his two daughters Kesi, 5, and Jozi, 2, at Mt. Bethel Baptist Church on Rhode Island Avenue in northwest, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 15, 2012 (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Kenyan McDuffie, a candidate to replace Harry Thomas for Ward 5 city councilmember, comes to cast his vote in the special election with his wife Princess, right, and his two daughters Kesi, 5, and Jozi, 2, at Mt. Bethel Baptist Church on Rhode Island Avenue in northwest, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 15, 2012 (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Wesley Korir (left) and Sharon Cherop, both of Kenya, kiss the winner's trophy after winning the men's and women's divisions of the 116th Boston Marathon in Boston on April 16, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki

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A Somali villager talks to Kenyan soldiers, who crossed the border after abductions and grenade attacks inside Kenya were linked to the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabab in Somalia. (Associated Press)

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Elephant herds were thriving in Kenya's Tsavo East National Park and other parts of eastern and southern Africa since ivory trade was banned in 1989. Now, the animals are not safe from poachers just about anywhere on the continent. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Elephants drink at a water hole in Kenya's Tsavo East national park on May 27, 2005. (Associated Press)

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Rosalia Adhiambo, 52, and grandniece Emily, 5, both of whom are HIV positive and who share one meal a day that Mrs. Adhiambo, a widow, gets for free from a medical clinic, stand outside their shack in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya. (Associated Press)

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Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya runs through Central Park in New York on his way to winning the ING New York City Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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** FILE ** Kenyan troops heading to Somalia are pictured near Liboi, Kenya, on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. The troops will stay in southern Somalia until Kenyans feel safe again, the chief of Kenya's armed forces said Saturday. (AP Photo, File)

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Kenyan police guard the scene of a suspected grenade blast at a pub in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, on Oct. 24, 2011. The blast wounded more than a dozen people, a police official said. (Associated Press)

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In this undated image provided by the Manda Bay resort hotel, a beach at Manda Island, Kenya, is seen. Suspected Somali pirates driving their boat under the cover of darkness kidnapped an elderly Frenchwoman on a resort island in northern Kenya early Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011, a Western official and an area resident said. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Manda Bay)

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A Kenyan converts money at a currency-exchange bureau in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday. Kenya's currency is in free fall against the dollar, dropping 30 percent in value this year, to an all-time low. That has increased prices of food and fuel across the country. (Associated Press)

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Townspeople watch as rescue workers tend to the injured and dead in flattened homes after a gasoline pipeline exploded Monday in Nairobi, Kenya. At least 75 people were dead and the toll was expected to rise; more than 100 suffered severe burns. (Associated Press)

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An person injured when a gasoline pipeline exploded receives treatment at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

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Associated Press Turkana people wait in line to receive food from a famine-relief charity in Turkana district, Kenya, on Aug. 30. The U.N. says tens of thousands already have died in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti owing to famine.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A woman and her husband in Kenya wait for food distribution from Oxfam on Tuesday. The United Nations says tens of thousands of people have died of starvation in the drought-plagued Horn of Africa.

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A woman carries three water containers on her back to her home on Aug. 4, 2011, at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. The camp, designed for 90,000 people, now houses about 440,000 refugees, almost all from war-ravaged Somalia. (Associated Press)

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Members of Rage Mohamed's family are overtaken by a dust storm as they try to build a makeshift shelter on the outskirts of the world's largest refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, this month. It took the 15-member family five days to walk to the camp from their drought-stricken home in Somalia. (Associated Press)