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FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016 file photo, Kenya Olympics athletic team manager Michael Rotich attends the Milimani Court in Kenya where he is facing doping allegations. Michael Rotich has been banned for 10 years for corruption after he asked for $12,000 to give athletes advance notice to help them beat doping tests. The ban was announced by the IAAF ethics board on Wednesday May 22, 2019, following a three-year investigation. (AP Photo/File)

Kenya’s Olympic track coach banned 10 years for corruption

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FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015, Kenya's Asbel Kiprop shows his gold medal after winning the men's 1500m final at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015. Former Olympic and three-time world champion Asbel Kiprop of Kenya was banned for four years Saturday for testing positive for the blood-boosting drug EPO after his claim that urine samples might have been tampered with by disreputable doping control officers was rejected. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, FILE)

Former Olympic champion Kiprop banned for 4 years for doping

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Salah’s Egypt faces Congo, Uganda & Zimbabwe at African Cup

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Suspected Islamic extremists abduct 2 Cuban doctors in Kenya

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017 file photo, a Somali refugee girl walks past the fence surrounding a hut at Dadaab refugee camp, hosting over 230,000 inhabitants, in northern Kenya. An internal United Nations document obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, March 29, 2019 says Kenya again seeks to close the Dadaab camp that hosts more than 200,000 refugees from neighboring Somalia. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

UN document shows Kenya seeking to close Somali refugee camp

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

In this March 8, 2019 photo, Luckio &quot;Luke&quot; Odero poses for a photo in Bowling Green, Ky. Odero regularly travels between Bowling Green and Nairobi, Kenya. Odero brings soccer balls to his community in Kenya. (Caroline Eggers/Daily News via AP)

Soccer, friendship connect Bowling Green to Nairobi

By CAROLINE EGGERS and Bowling Green Daily News - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017 file photo, Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana leads Kenya's Hellen Onsando Obiri during the Women's 5000 meters final at the World Athletics Championships in London. The IAAF’s decision to drop the 5,000 meters from its Diamond League track and field series has been met with strong resistance from Ethiopia and Kenya, the East African nations whose athletes dominate long-distance events. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Ethiopia, Kenya push back as Diamond League drops 5,000m

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

France's President Emmanuel Macron, right, meets with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta on his arrival at State House in Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, March 13, 2019. Macron is visiting Kenya Wednesday, after stops in Ethiopia and Djibouti on Tuesday, as part of his latest Africa visit aimed at shoring up military and economic ties in an increasingly strategic region. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

French president Macron pledges economic growth with Kenya

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Mourners attend a memorial service held by an association of Ethiopian airline pilots, at which framed photographs of seven crew members were on display, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Monday, March 11, 2019. Authorities in Ethiopia, China and Indonesia grounded all Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft Monday following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner that killed 157 people, and investigators found the flight recorders from the field where the plane went down. (AP Photo/Samuel Habtab)

The Latest: Travel hub UAE suspends Boeing 737 Max 8, 9 jets

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Airplane parts lie on the ground at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, March 11, 2019. A spokesman says Ethiopian Airlines has grounded all its Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft as a safety precaution, following the crash of one of its planes in which 157 people were killed. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

The Latest: US aviation team arrives at Ethiopia crash site

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This undated photo provided by Carleton University shows Pius Adesanmi. Adesanmi, a Nigerian professor with Carleton University in Ottowa, Canada, was one of the victims who died Sunday, March 10, 2019, when an Ehtiopian Airlines jet crashed shortly after takeoff in Ethiopia. (Josh Hotz/Courtesy of Carleton University via AP)

Ethiopian crash victims were aid workers, doctors, students

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In this image taken from video, rescuers search through wreckage at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed shortly after takeoff at Hejere near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia Sunday, March 10, 2019. The Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia's capital on Sunday morning, killing all 157 on board, authorities said, as grieving families rushed to airports in Addis Ababa and the destination, Nairobi. (AP Photo/Yidnek Kirubel)

Government officials, doctors among Ethiopian crash victims

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Family members arrive at Bole International airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sunday, March 10, 2019, to check on information on the Ethiopian flight that crashed. An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia’s capital on Sunday morning, killing all 157 people thought to be on board, the airline and state broadcaster said. (AP Photo/Elias Masseret)

Correction: Ethiopia-Plane-Crash-The Latest story

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Stranded passengers wait for their delayed flights out of JKIA airport in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Some hundreds of air passengers were stranded Wednesday in Kenya because of a strike at Nairobi's international airport by the Kenya Aviation Workers Union.(AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Kenya flights disrupted by airport workers strike

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

The Latest: Colorado politics consultant dead in Kenya crash

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Colorado consultant, California CEOs dead in Kenya crash

By KATHLEEN FOODY and CHRISTOPHER WEBER - Associated Press

FILE-- In this file photo of Thursday Feb.22, 2018. Members of the public fill the courtroom as the High Court in Kenya begins hearing arguments in a case challenging parts of the penal code seen as targeting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, at the High Court in Nairobi, Kenya. Extortion, human rights violations ranging from assaults, physical, sexual and verbal, denial of access to state services, forceful evictions, harassment, being disowned by family members among other challenges, may become a thing of the past for the Kenyan gay community if a court rules on Friday Feb. 22, 2019, in their favour to abolish laws that criminalize homosexual behaviour.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis-File)

Kenya court set to rule on whether to scrap anti-gay laws

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Kenya police: 5 dead including 3 Americans in plane crash

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New Zealander freed after arrest in Kenya, near Somalia

By IDI ALI JUMA - Associated Press

High-level detainee accuses Kenya, South Sudan of kidnapping

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press