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Lupita Nyong’o accepts the award for best actress in a supporting role for &quot;12 Years a Slave&quot; during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 2, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

Pride of Africa: Kenya celebrates Nyong’o’s Oscar

By TOM ODULA and JASON STRAZIUSO - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, Ka Joog Executive Director Mohamed Farah, left, looks at images of the group’s recent trip to Kenya in Minneapolis, while Daud Mohamed, Ka Joog’s vice president of international endeavors, looks on. The two were among five Ka Joog members who recently went to Kenya to seek out positive opportunities for youth and intercept messages of radicalism. (AP Photo/Amy Forliti)

Minn. Somali group fights al-Shabab message abroad

By AMY FORLITI - Associated Press

Kenya’s Chumba wins Tokyo Marathon in record time

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FILE - In this Nov. 22, 2009 file photo, crew members work aboard the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama after the ship docked in the harbour of Mombasa, in Kenya. Police in the Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles said Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 that two American security officers were found dead Tuesday in a cabin on the Maersk Alabama, the ship hijacked by pirates in 2009, an event dramatized in the movie &quot;Captain Phillips&quot; starring Tom Hanks. (AP Photo, File)

2 US security officers found dead in Seychelles

By JASON STRAZIUSO - Associated Press

SD nun defines trips to Africa ‘a sacred journey’

By RANDY DOCKENDORF - Associated Press

Kenya Muslim Youths shout slogans, proclaiming Allah Akbar (God is Great) as they engage with Kenyan anti riot police outside Masjid Musa in Majengo, Mombasa, Kenya, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. A riot outside a mosque in Kenya’s coastal resort and port city of Mombasa has left at least one police officer injured. (AP Photo)

2 killed in clash at terror-linked Kenyan mosque

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 file photo, Kenyan officials display some of more than 1,600 pieces of illegal ivory found hidden inside bags of sesame seeds in freight traveling from Uganda, in Kenya's major port city of Mombasa, Kenya. A Kenyan court sentenced a Chinese man Tang Yong Jian on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 to seven years in jail, or a fine of about US$230,000, for ivory smuggling in the first case since the country passed a stringent new law to deter illegal trading in wildlife products. (AP Photo, File)

Kenya: Chinese man fined $230K for ivory traffic

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 file photo, Corporal Andrew Smith of Britain's 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, right, instructs rangers of the Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenya Forest Service about the use of hand signals while patrolling, as they stage a demonstration of the skills they have learned over the last few days of joint anti-poaching training, in the forest near Nanyuki, Kenya. Africa is getting tougher in its fight against poaching with new laws with stiff penalties, more military training for rangers, and new technology like drones with thermal cameras are all helping to protect rhinos and elephants. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Africa’s fight on rhino, elephant poachers aided

By JASON STRAZIUSO and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

Minibus explosion in Kenya’s capital kills at least 3

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loot: A Kenya Wildlife Service warden guards elephant ivory that has been impounded. The tusks are a sign of an increase in poaching in Africa that is threatening the elephant population on the continent and bringing easy money to terrorists. (Associated press)

Terrorists slaughter African elephants, use ivory to finance operations

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Men carrying automatic weapons and bags are seen in the storeroom of the Nakumatt shop during the four-day siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, which killed more than 60 people in September. A Kenyan military spokesman confirmed the names of four attackers as Abu Baara al-Sudani (left), Omar Nabhan (unseen), Khattab al-Kene (unseen) and Umayr (right). (AP Photo/Kenyan Defense Forces via Citizen TV)

One of Westgate Mall attackers lived in Kenyan refugee camp

By Jason Straziuso and Tom Odula - Associated Press

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3 men accused of gang raping Kenyan teen get lawn-cutting sentence: report

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Men carrying automatic weapons and bags are seen in the storeroom of the Nakumatt shop during the four-day siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, which killed more than 60 people in September. A Kenyan military spokesman confirmed the names of four attackers as Abu Baara al-Sudani (left), Omar Nabhan (unseen), Khattab al-Kene (unseen) and Umayr (right). (AP Photo/Kenyan Defense Forces via Citizen TV)

Libya bristles at U.S. raid that captured al Qaeda militant

By Esam Mohamed and Tony G. Gabriel - Associated Press

In this photo taken from footage from Citizen TV, via the Kenya Defence Forces and made available Friday, Oct. 4 2013, a man reported to be Khatab Alkene, one of the four armed militants walking in a store at the Westgate Mall, during the four-day-long siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya which killed more than 60 people last month. A Kenyan military spokesman has confirmed the names of four attackers as Abu Baara al-Sudani, Omar Nabhan, Khattab al-Kene and Umayr. (AP Photo/ Kenyan Defence forces via Citizen TV)

U.S. commandos raid Somalia, nab Libyan al Qaeda leader

By Abdi Guled, Jason Straziuso and Kimberly Dozier - Associated Press

** FILE ** Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku addresses a press conference near the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Kenya slams U.S. for ‘unfriendly’ travel advisory after mall terror

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Somalis observe the remains of a vehicle used in a car bomb attack in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia in this Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 file photo, an attack claimed by a spokesman for Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist insurgency. Al-Shabab have claimed responsibility for the gun and grenade attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday, Sept 21, which has left dozens dead and wounded, apparently in retaliation for Kenya's military participation in peace-keeping efforts in Somalia.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, file)

Al-Shabab on offense: Muslim terrorists from Nairobi mall vow ‘abundance of blood’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Terror in Nairobi

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES