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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)

UN: Africa’s locust outbreak needs $76M ‘by, actually, now’

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, hundreds of newly trained al-Shabab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18 km south of Mogadishu, in Somalia. The U.S. Africa Command, signaling concern over the Pentagon's potential cuts, has emphasized the Somalia-based al-Shabab as a threat to the U.S. homeland, in intent if not yet in capability _ and warning that neither China nor Russia is doing much to counter Africa's extremist groups. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

AP Explains: Why US troop cuts in Africa would cause alarm

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Body of soldier killed in Kenya attack brought to Illinois

Associated Press

A member of Kenya's security forces walks past a damaged police post after an attack by al-Shabab extremists in the settlement of Kamuthe in Garissa county, Kenya Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. The militants from neighboring Somalia attacked the settlement killing three teachers, setting fire to a police post, and destroying a telecommunications mast, police said in a report seen by The Associated Press. (AP Photo)

Al-Shabab extremists kill 3 teachers in Kenya, abduct 1

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

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

Associated Press

Mudslides, floods kill 34 people in western Kenya

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press