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4 children shot dead in latest al-Shabab attack in Kenya

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Aug. 26, 2019 and 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. The al-Shabab extremist group said Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 that it has attacked the Camp Simba military base used by U.S. and Kenyan troops in coastal Kenya, while Kenya's military says the attempted pre-dawn breach was repulsed and at least four attackers were killed. (Staff Sgt. Lexie West/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Extremists attack Kenya military base, 3 Americans killed

By ABDI GULED and TOM ODULA and CARA ANNA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Aug. 26, 2019 and released by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Devin Boyer, 435th Air Expeditionary Wing photojournalist, salutes the flag during a ceremony signifying the change from tactical to enduring operations at Camp Simba, Manda Bay, Kenya. The al-Shabab extremist group said Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 that it has attacked the Camp Simba military base used by U.S. and Kenyan troops in coastal Kenya, while Kenya's military says the attempted pre-dawn breach was repulsed and at least four attackers were killed. (Staff Sgt. Lexie West/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Al-Shabab attacks Camp Simba, U.S. military base in Kenya

By Abdi Guled, Tom Odula and Carl Anna - Associated Press

A man looks at a bus which was ambushed by gunmen in the Nyongoro area of Lamu county, near the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020. Kenya police say four people have been killed on Thursday in two ambushes in which passenger buses in the country's eastern coastal area were fired on by gunmen, and for which Islamic extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility. (AP Photo)

Kenyan officials say extremist attack on bus convoy kills 4

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

UK grad runs hospital for orphans in Africa

By KARLA WAD and Lexington Herald-Leader - Associated Press

US sanctions 5 South Sudan agents it says killed 2 critics

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

Nairobi governor Mike Gideon Mbuvi appears with other suspects accused of corruption, at the Mililani law court in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday Dec. 9, 2019. The flamboyant governor of Kenya's capital city, Nairobi, has been charged with 19 counts of graft-related charges as the country struggles to tackle runaway corruption. He denied the charges Monday, including embezzlement and money laundering. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Flamboyant governor of Kenya’s capital charged with graft

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

People at the scene of a collapsed building in in Tasia Embakasi, an east neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya on Friday Dec. 6, 2019. A six-story building collapsed in Kenya's capital on Friday, officials said, with people feared to be trapped in the debris. Police say people have been rescued by residents using their bare hands. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

6-story building collapses in Nairobi; at least 4 killed

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Police: Al-Shabab extremists kill 8 on bus in northern Kenya

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 16, 2015 file photo, HIV-counseling and prevention course facilitators Evelyn Ojwang, center, and Henry Owino, right, conduct an HIV prevention session entitled &quot;Healthy Choices for a Better Future&quot; 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. In 2019 fewer people in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa are dying of AIDS as treatment becomes more widely available, yet some officials worry that success may be encouraging a sense of complacency. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Complacency a concern as AIDS treatment improves in Africa

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Passengers from stranded vehicles stand next to the debris from floodwaters, on the road from Kapenguria, in West Pokot county, in western Kenya Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. Kenya's interior minister says dozens of people have been killed in mudslides, after heavy rains unleashed overnight floods in western Kenya. (AP Photo)

East Africa struggles with heavy rains, with more to come

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017 file photo, Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga gestures to thousands of supporters gathered in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya's president and top opposition leader launched a report Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019 that they call a road map for unifying the country and ending deadly violence around elections. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Kenyan rivals launch report to help end election violence

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Top Kenya court dismisses British American Tobacco challenge

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Passengers from stranded vehicles stand next to the debris from floodwaters, on the road from Kapenguria, in West Pokot county, in western Kenya Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. Kenya's interior minister says dozens of people have been killed in mudslides, after heavy rains unleashed overnight floods in western Kenya. (AP Photo)

Kenya flooding death toll rises to 60; 7 others missing

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

The Latest: 29 people killed in mudslides in Kenya

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Mudslides, floods kill 34 people in western Kenya

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 file photo, Kenyan army soldiers ride on a vehicle at their base in Tabda, inside Somalia. A United Nations report published in Nov. 2019 says it has corroborated evidence of five attacks allegedly carried out by Kenya's military on communication masts belonging to neighboring Somalia's largest telecom provider Hormuud Telecom Somalia. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

UN links Kenyan military to attacks on Somalia’s top telecom

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Love drives decade of devotion to African school

By HELEN BENNETT - Associated Press

Runners start the Bank of America Chicago on Marathon Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei sets world marathon record in Chicago

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Gerald Erebon looks over livestock at the Archers Post settlement in Kenya on Sunday, June 30, 2019. Erebon has been an outcast all his life: Tall, light-skinned with wavy hair, he looks nothing like the dark-skinned Kenyan man listed as his father on his birth certificate, or his black mother or siblings. He and his family say that’s because his biological father is the Rev. Mario Lacchin, an Italian priest of the Consolata Missionaries order who ministered in Archers Post, Kenya in the 1980s. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Church accused of covering up priest’s abuse, and paternity

By NICOLE WINFIELD and RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press