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FILE - In this Friday, May 5, 2017 file photo, Incumbent head of Kenya's National Olympic Committee Kipchoge 'Kip' Keino, attends a meeting on the day committee elections were supposed to take place in Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya's director of public prosecutions said on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018 that distance-running great Keino and six other former officials will be charged with corruption relating to the alleged misappropriation of more than $545,000 that was meant to help fund the country's team at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Keino, a trailblazer for Kenyan runners and a gold medalist at the 1968 Olympics, was head of the national Olympic committee until last year. (AP Photo/Sayyid Abdul Azim, File)

Kip Keino hands himself over to police in corruption case

By MUTWIRI MUTUOTA - Associated Press

Sierra Leone suspended as 7 days of African qualifiers start

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

First lady Melania Trump lifts a baby during a visit to the Nest Orphanage in Limuru, Kenya, Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. Mrs. Trump is on her first-ever visit to Africa and her first extended solo international trip as first lady. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The Latest: Melania Trump has tea with Kenya’s 1st lady

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FILE - In this April 27, 2018, file photo, Wanuri Kahiu, the director of the film &quot;Rafiki,&quot; or &quot;Friend&quot; in Swahili, a love story featuring two women, stands by an art installation as she is interviewed by The Associated Press in Nairobi, Kenya. The first Kenyan feature film to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival has received overwhelming audience support since a Kenyan court temporarily lifted a ban imposed by censors over the film's gay content, a lawyer said Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

‘Huge win’ as banned Kenyan film is allowed limited showings

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Ban on film depicting women’s love story to resume in Kenya

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Kenya’s military says it’s killed 10 extremists in attack

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FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, file photo, heavy smoke rises from the Westgate Mall after large blasts rocked the building on the third day of a hostage siege in Nairobi, Kenya. Five years after al-Shabab fighters burst into the luxury shopping mall hurling grenades and starting a days-long siege that left 67 people dead, analysts say the Somalia-based extremist group has been pushed down Africa's east coast as far as Mozambique as its regional threat expands. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

5 years after mall Kenya attack, al-Shabab’s threat grows

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, June, 11, 2011 file photo, then Secretary General of Athletics Kenya David Okeyo pays his respects to the late Kenyan runner Samuel Wanjiru at a funeral home in Nairobi, Kenya. AAF Council member David Okeyo of Kenya has been banned from track and field for life for his role in diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars of sponsorship money from Nike for his and others' personal use. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim, File)

IAAF Council member Okeyo banned for life in Nike money case

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May inspects the honour guard after arriving to meet with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018. The British prime minister is on a three-country Africa visit with a large business delegation as Britain seeks to boost economic ties ahead of a bumpy exit from the European Union in March. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Britain’s May in Kenya to boost economic ties amid Brexit

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2018, file photo, Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill warms up before the start of a preseason NFL game against the Baltimore Ravens, in Miami Gardens, Fla. Tannehill is back after missing the past 20 games because of left knee issues, and keeping him healthy will be the No. 1 priority.He’s fine with the notion the season hinges on him.(AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Dolphins begin season under the radar _ as usual

By STEVEN WINE - Associated Press

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump welcomes president of Kenya to the White House

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FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2018 file photo Kenya's Kipyegon Bett, second right, runs to the line to win a Men's 800m semifinal during the World Athletics Championships in London. The 800 meters world championships bronze medalist Bett has tested positive for the blood-booster EPO having already been suspended and charged with evading a doping test. He faces a four-year ban. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Anti-doping group moves to close loophole with lab in Kenya

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, May 27, 2017 file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump poses with African leaders, from left, Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the African Union Alpha Conde, President of the African Development Bank Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria's Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Ethiopia's then Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, in the Sicilian town of Taormina, Italy. Kenya's president will meet with President Donald Trump on Monday, Aug. 27, 2018 as East Africa's commercial hub emerges from electoral turmoil. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Kenyan president to meet with Trump on security, trade

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Official: British PM to visit Kenya in first visit to Africa

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Kenya president urges citizens to arrest the corrupt

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015, file photo, Kenya's Nicholas Bett celebrates after winning the men's 400m hurdles final at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing. The ex-hurdles world champion Bett, 28, has been killed in a road accident. Nandi county police commander Patrick Wambani says Bett was killed in the car crash early Wednesday morning near Kenya's high-altitude training region of Eldoret. Bett's coach Vincent Mumo says the athlete's SUV hit bumps in a road and rolled. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Former world hurdles champion Bett killed in car crash at 28

By MUTWIRI MUTUOTA and GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

10th endangered rhino dies in Kenya after botched transfer

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Kenyan groups protest government evictions of 18,000 people

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FILE - In this March. 2, 2012, file photo, stars Danny DeVito, left, and Zac Efron read &quot;The Lorax&quot; by Dr. Seuss to school children during the annual Read Across America Day at The New York Public Library in New York. Researchers at Dartmouth College, the alma mater of author and illustrator Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, said on Monday, July 23, 2018, that the furry orange protagonist of &quot;The Lorax&quot; and the Truffula trees may have been based on the patas monkey species and the whistling thorn acacia tree, both found in Kenya. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)

Paper suggests Kenyan monkey inspired Dr. Seuss’ Lorax

By HOLLY RAMER - Associated Press

Kenyan school children using slingshots to plant trees

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