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President Obama shakes hands with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn after arriving at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport Sunday. Mr. Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to visit Ethiopia. His trip also included a stop in Kenya, the homeland of his late father. (Associated Press)

Obama champions rights for women and gays on African trip

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One for a trip to Kenya and Ethiopia, on Thursday, July 23, 2015, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to visit both countries. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Obama says Kenya trip is ‘personal’: ‘There’s a reason my name is Barack Hussein Obama’

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

President Obama takes part in a panel discussion at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at the United Nations Compound in Nairobi on July 25, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama’s LGBT push spurned by Uhuru Kenyatta; gay rights called ‘nonissue’

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006, file photo, then U.S. Sen. Barack Obama meets with his step-grandmother Sarah Obama at his father's house in Kogelo, western Kenya. On Friday, July 24, 2015, Obama is due to arrive in Kenya, the country of his father's birth, for the first time since he was a U.S. senator in 2006, and the first stop on his two-nation African tour in which he will also visit Ethiopia. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim, File) **FILE**

Obama to meet extended family on visit to Kenya

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Obama's first trip to his father's homeland later this month will confront many of the challenges of his presidency back home, from Islamist terrorism to economic competition from China to his fight for gay rights. (Associated Press)

Obama, on Kenya visit, to confront terrorism surge, gay rights controversy

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Police and a member of the Intelligence Services in civilian clothes detain a protester in the Nyakabyga neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi. Police fired live rounds and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting the president's seeking a third term. (associated press)

Burundi failed coup poses stark test for democracy

By Tonny Onyulo — Special to the Washington Times

Caroline Rotich, of Kenya, breaks the tape to win the women's division of the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 20, 2015 in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Desisa wins 119th Boston Marathon; Rotich takes women’s race

By JIMMY GOLEN - Associated Press

University students leave after treatment at Kenyatta National Hospital, Sunday, April 12, 2015, in Nairobi, Kenya. One Kenyan student was killed and 141 injured in a stampede Sunday on the campus of the University of Nairobi when students mistook several accidental explosions for another extremist attack, according to an official. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

BETHANY BLANKLEY: Christian persecution in Kenya: What Americans should know, do

By Bethany Blankley

President Obama's remarks on concern when he listens to "less-than-loving expressions by Christians" drew both disapproval and laughter from the audience at an Easter prayer breakfast at the White House on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Obama criticizes ‘less-than-loving’ Christians

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A woman is helped after she viewed the body of a relative killed in Thursday's attack at Garissa university in northeastern Kenya, at the Chiromo funeral home, in Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, April 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Kenyan warplanes attack suspected militant positions

By Christopher Torchia and Tom Odula - Associated Press

A nun prays during the service at the Our Lady of Consolation Church, which was attacked with grenades by militants almost three years ago, in Garissa, Kenya Sunday, April 5, 2015. Easter Sunday's ceremony was laden with emotion for the several hundred members of Garissa's Christian minority, which is fearful following the recent attack on Garissa University College by al-Shabab, a Somalia-based Islamic extremist group, who singled out Christians for killing, though al-Shabab has a long record of killing Muslims over the years. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Gunman in Kenyan massacre was government official’s son

By TOM ODULA and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi (to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican , Sunday, April 5, 2015. In an Easter peace wish, Pope Francis on Sunday praised the framework nuclear agreement with Iran as an opportunity to make the world safer, while expressing deep worry about bloodshed in Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. Cautious hope ran through Francis' "Urbi et Orbi" Easter message, a kind of papal commentary on the state of the world's affairs, which he delivered from the central balcony of St. Peter's Square. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, Pool)

Pope’s Easter message: In this violent world, what we need is Christ’s resurrection

By Ann Schneible - Catholic News Agency

Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldiers arrive at a hospital to escort the bodies of the attackers to be put on public view, in Garissa, Kenya Saturday, April 4, 2015. Authorities displayed the bodies of the alleged attackers involved in the killings at Garissa University College on the bed of a pickup truck that drove slowly past the crowd gathered in a large open area. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Al-Shabaab threatens ‘another bloodbath’ in Kenya

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Kenyan Muslims demonstrate against the attack and in solidarity with those Christians targeted in the attack, on a street in Garissa, Kenya, Friday, April 3, 2015. The Islamic extremists who slaughtered 147 people at the college in northeast Kenya as they shouted "God is great" appeared to have planned extensively, even targeting a site where Christians had gone to pray, survivors said Friday. Sign on left in Swahili reads "We are very sorrowful, because of the killings of the students, at the school at Garissa". (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Obama offers condolences to Kenyan president on massacre

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times