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Students of the Garissa University College take shelter in a vehicle after fleeing from an attack by gunmen in Garissa, Kenya, Thursday, April 2, 2015. Gunmen attacked the university early Thursday, shooting indiscriminately in campus hostels. Police and military surrounded the buildings and were trying to secure the area in eastern Kenya, police officer Musa Yego said. (AP Photo)

Al-Shabab militants kill 147 at Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya

By Tom Odula, Rodney Muhumuza and Khalil Senosi - Associated Press

Medics help an injured person at Kenyatta national Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, April, 2, 2015, after being airlifted from Garissa after an attack by gunmen at Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya on Thursday morning. (AP Photo)

Al-Shabab militants kill 147 at university in Kenya

By Tom Odula and Rodney Muhumuza and Khalil Senosi - Associated Press

**FILE** Then-Sen. Barack Obama (right) is dressed as a Somali Elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan during his visit in 2006 to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya, near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia. (Associated Press)

Obama to travel to Kenya for entrepreneurship summit

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, a child holds a book while attending an HIV prevention session entitled "Healthy Choices for a Better Future" to a group comprised of children, adolescents and adults who are either HIV-positive or at high risk of catching HIV due to their circumstances, at a center run by a Kenyan non-governmental organization in the Korogocho slum neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya. AIDS has become the leading cause of death for adolescents in Africa and the second leading cause of death among adolescents globally, global health agencies said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Pro-life, Catholic groups barking over AIDS program

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Feb.17, 2011 file photo, hundreds of newly trained al-Shabab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18 kilometers (12 miles) south of Mogadishu, Somalia. U.S. military forces targeted the Islamic extremist al-Shabab network in an operation Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 in Somalia, the Pentagon said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi, terrorist with $3M bounty on his head, surrenders: Somali official

Associated Press

Suspected Al-Shabab militant captured during Thursday's attack on African Union base are seen in Mogadishu, Somalia, in this Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Al-Shabab militants attack African Union base; 9 dead

By Abdi Guled - Associated Press

Members of the al-Shabab terrorist militia undergo training at a camp outside Mogadishu, Somalia, on Nov. 4, 2009. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Al-Shabab terrorists in Kenya weed out non-Muslims at quarry, killing 36

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - This handout file photo taken Sept. 2, 2014, provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows A 39-year-old woman, the first participant enrolled in VRC 207, receiving a dose of the investigational NIAID/GSK Ebola vaccine at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. As West Africa struggles to contain the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola, some experts say an unusual but simple treatment might help: the blood of survivors. The evidence is mixed for using infection-fighting antibodies from survivors’ blood for Ebola, but without any licensed drugs or vaccines for the deadly disease, some say it’s worth a shot. (AP Photo/NIAID, File)

Kenya tetanus vaccines void of anti-pregnancy hormones, Catholic group says

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Kenyan security forces and others gather around the scene on an attack on a bus about 50 kilometers (31 miles) outside the town of Mandera, near the Somali border in northeastern Kenya, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014. Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels, al-Shabab, attacked the bus in northern Kenya at dawn on Saturday, singling out and killing 28 passengers who could not recite an Islamic creed and were assumed to be non-Muslims, Kenyan police said. (AP Photo)

Somalia’s al-Shabab kills 28 non-Muslims in Kenya

Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014 file photo, Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses the media during a news conference held in an hotel in Gammarth, northeastern Tunisia. Drugmakers are racing to develop vaccines and drugs to address the worst outbreak of Ebola in history. It's unclear who will pay for their products, but companies are betting that governments and aid groups will foot the bill. (AP Photo/Adel Ben Salah, File)

Officials denounce claims that Kenyan vaccine meant for population control

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

A NGO volunteer receives a dose of experimental vaccine "cAd3-EBOZ Lau" from a nurse at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Jean-Christophe Bott) ** FILE **

Kenya’s Catholic bishops warn tetanus vaccine is ‘disguised population control’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Kentucky editorial roundup

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Tourism, a major source of revenue for many African countries, especially Kenya and South Africa, is increasingly being hurt as some potential visitors hesitate over visiting the continent because of Ebola. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File)

GOULD: Travel to Africa taking a hit from Ebola

By Lark Gould

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, armed al-shabab fighters on pickup trucks prepare to travel into the city, just outside Mogadishu, in Somalia. U.S. military forces targeted the Islamic extremist al-Shabab network in an operation Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 in Somalia, the Pentagon said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Somalia terror group al-Shabab names new leader after U.S. airstrike

Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, armed al-shabab fighters on pickup trucks prepare to travel into the city, just outside Mogadishu, in Somalia. U.S. military forces targeted the Islamic extremist al-Shabab network in an operation Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 in Somalia, the Pentagon said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

6 militants killed in US Somalia strike

By ABDI GULED - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 5, 2013 file photo, two baby orphaned elephants touch trunks as they give themselves a dust-bath in the red earth after being fed milk from a bottle by a keeper, at an event to commemorate World Environment Day at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. Wildlife Direct chief executive Paula Kahumbu on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 delivered a petition with nearly 400 signatures on it to Kenya's inspector general of police urging the arrest of what her group says is the "ivory kingpin" of Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

100,000 elephants killed in Africa, study finds

By JASON STRAZIUSO - Associated Press

Residents barricade a road with burning tires and other roadblocks as they protest against the recent killings and what they claimed was the government's failure to provide them with enough security, in the village of Kibaoni just outside the town of Mpeketoni, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Somali border on the coast of Kenya Tuesday, June 17, 2014. (AP Photo)

Kenya president blames locals for deadly attacks

By Jason Straziuso - Associated Press

A man observes the remains of destroyed vehicles and buildings in the town of Mpeketoni, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Somali border on the coast of Kenya Monday, June 16, 2014. Dozens of Somali extremists wielding automatic weapons attacked the small Kenyan coastal town for hours, assaulting the police station, setting two hotels on fire, and spraying bullets into the street killing dozens, officials said Monday. (AP Photo)

Gunmen singled out non-Muslims in Kenya attack

By Tom Odula and Jason Straziuso - Associated Press