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FILE - In this June 9, 2020, file photo, Kenyan children and men are photographed in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, in front of a new mural showing an incident in 2016 when a Kenyan riot policeman repeatedly kicked a protester. The killing of George Floyd in the United States has raised awareness over police violence in South Africa and Kenya. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Floyd killing finds echoes of abuse in South Africa, Kenya

By GERALD IMRAY and TOM ODULA - Associated Press

A man wearing chains joins a protest rally in front of the U.S. Consulate General in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, June 8, 2020. The protest in support of Black Lives Matter was called by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party in response to the recent killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, USA, that has led to protests in many countries and across the US. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

South Africa, Kenya protest cop brutality in US and at home

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and TOM ODULA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Monday, June 1, 2020, Tanzanian truck driver Ally Akida Samwel washes his hands next to his truck as he waits to be allowed to enter on the Kenya side of the Namanga border crossing with Tanzania. Africa's long-haul truckers carry food, fuel and other essential supplies along dangerous roads, but now they say they are increasingly accused of carrying the coronavirus as well. The drivers say they are stigmatized and even threatened in some countries. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Africa’s essential truckers say they face virus stigma

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and TOM ODULA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Monday, June 1, 2020, residents burn fires late at night on a street to protest the death of James Mureithi, a homeless man who protesters alleged was shot dead by police during the nightly dusk-to-dawn curfew established to curb the spread of the coronavirus, in the Mathare slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya. Hundreds of people in Mathare left their homes and burnt tires on the streets in the latest outrage over alleged police brutality, with a rights activist claiming that 19 Kenyans from low-income neighborhood have died from police actions in enforcing the curfew. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Kenyans protest as police accused of killing homeless man

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 23, 2019 file photo, female northern white rhinos Fatu, 19, right, and Najin, 30, left, the last two northern white rhinos on the planet, are fed some carrots by a ranger in their enclosure at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya. Groundbreaking work to keep alive the nearly extinct northern white rhino - population, two - by in-vitro fertilization has been hampered by travel restrictions caused by the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Virus stalls work to keep alive a rare rhino subspecies

By JOE MWIHIA and KHALED KAZZIHA - Associated Press

In this April 10, 2020, photo, Judith Andeka a widow and mother of five, fetches water with a bucket in the Kibera slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya. Andeka used to earn $2.50 to $4 a day washing clothes in Nairobi’s Kibera, one of the world’s biggest slums. With people not going to work because of restrictions on movement, neighbors can’t afford her services. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Meet 8 people around the world hustling to survive pandemic

By AYA BATRAWY and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Flooding in Kenya has killed nearly 200 in past 3 weeks

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Sunday, March 29, 2020, Boureima Gassambe speaks to The Associated Press at the makeshift camp for the internally displaced where he and around 600 others live in an abandoned school on the outskirts of the capital, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. “We ran away from the terrorists and came here, but now there’s the coronavirus, and we don’t know what will happen,” said Gassambe. (Photo/Sam Mednick)

Lack of virus testing stokes fears in world’s refugee camps

By JOSEPH KRAUSS and RISHABH R. JAIN and CARA ANNA - Associated Press

In this March 24, 2020, file photo, a street trader sells cabbages by the side of the road, after the government ordered the closure of the main open-air market, in the Mathare slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya. Lockdowns in Africa limiting the movement of people in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus are threatening to choke off supplies of what the continent needs the most: Food. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Coronavirus crisis choking off supply of what Africa needs most: Food

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

Women queue for a planned distribution of food for those suffering under Kenya's coronavirus-related movement restrictions, before the crowd pushed through a gate and created a stampede, causing police to fire tear gas and leaving several injured, at a district office in the Kibera slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, April 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Stampede in Kenya as slum residents surge for food aid

By TOM ODULA and IDI ALI JUMA - Associated Press

Relatives and friends wait outside as the body of 13-year-old Yasin Hussein Moyo is washed prior to burial, at the Kariakor cemetery in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, March 31, 2020. The family of a 13-year-old boy is in mourning after police in Kenya's capital are accused of shooting him dead while enforcing a coronavirus curfew. Kenya’s police inspector general has ordered an investigation into the boy’s death by “stray bullet,” including a forensic analysis of all firearms held by officers at the scene. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

13-year-old shot dead; Kenyan police enforcing curfew blamed

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Supercomputer helps in tracking East Africa locust outbreak

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and DESMOND TIRO - Associated Press

In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, Ruth Kageche, whose brother Rev. George Mukua Kageche, a priest based in Italy, perished on the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 in 2019, holds a portrait him during an interview with The Associated Press in Nairobi, Kenya. The year since the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max has been a journey through grief, anger and determination for the families of those who died, as well as having far-reaching consequences for the aeronautics industry as it brought about the grounding of all Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 jets, which remain out of service. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Grief, controversy mark anniversary of Ethiopian plane crash

By ELIAS MESERET and DAVID KOENIG and GEOFFREY KAVITI - Associated Press

In this Aug. 26, 2019, file photo released by the U.S. Air Force, airmen from the 475th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron conduct a flag-raising ceremony, signifying the change from tactical to enduring operations, at Camp Simba, Manda Bay, Kenya. (Staff Sgt. Lexie West/U.S. Air Force via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. airstrike kills terrorist who plotted deadly Kenya attack

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

3 killed by al-Shabab extremists in bus attack in Kenya

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Desert locusts are decimating farmers' crops in mere days and threatening the food security of millions in countries from India eastward to Kenya and Ethiopia. It's Kenya's worst outbreak in 70 years. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

African nations struggle with once-in-generation locust plague

By Madison Hirneisen - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump welcomes Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump administration to open free-trade talks with Kenya

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and TOM ODULA and CARA ANNA - Associated Press

This October 2002, file photo, shows former Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi. Moi, a former schoolteacher who became Kenya’s longest-serving president and presided over years of repression and economic turmoil fueled by runaway corruption, has died. He was 95. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim, File)

Daniel arap Moi, former Kenyan president, dies at 95

By Tom Odula - Associated Press

Swarms of desert locusts fly up into the air from crops in Katitika village, Kitui county, Kenya Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Desert locusts have swarmed into Kenya by the hundreds of millions from Somalia and Ethiopia, countries that haven't seen such numbers in a quarter-century, destroying farmland and threatening an already vulnerable region. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Spray planes combat the huge locust outbreak in East Africa

By JOE MWIHIA and JOSPHAT KASIRE and BEN CURTIS - Associated Press

Olympic marathon champ Kipchoge on Kenya’s team for Tokyo

Associated Press