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lead in National Super Alliance (NASA) supporters holding poster of opposition leader Raila Odinga and his running mate Kalonzo Musyoka demonstrate in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday Oct. 11, 2017. The protesters are demanding a change of leadership at the country's election commission. The protests took place in the capital Nairobi and the opposition stronghold of Kisumu, in western Kenya, as well as in the coastal city of Mombasa.(AP Photo/Sayyid Abdul Azim) (credit)

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In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, a young ballerina waits for Kenyan ballet dancer Joel Kioko, 16, left, to teach a class in a room at a school in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. In a country not usually associated with classical ballet, Kenya's most promising young ballet dancer Joel Kioko has come home for Christmas from his training in the United States, to dance a solo in The Nutcracker and teach holiday classes to aspiring dancers in Kibera, the Kenyan capital's largest slum. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, young ballerinas gather on steps leading from the room where Kenyan ballet dancer Joel Kioko, 16, gave a class, at a school in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. In a country not usually associated with classical ballet, Kenya's most promising young ballet dancer Joel Kioko has come home for Christmas from his training in the United States, to dance a solo in The Nutcracker and teach holiday classes to aspiring dancers in Kibera, the Kenyan capital's largest slum. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, Kenyan ballet dancer Joel Kioko, 16, strikes a pose as a joke as he walks through the courtyard of a school where he was teaching young dancers, in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. In a country not usually associated with classical ballet, Kenya's most promising young ballet dancer Joel Kioko has come home for Christmas from his training in the United States, to dance a solo in The Nutcracker and teach holiday classes to aspiring dancers in Kibera, the Kenyan capital's largest slum. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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In this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015, Agnes Njoki, 17, takes a break with her daughter, Shantel Akinyi, 2, who accompanies her as she works scavenging for plastic at the garbage dump in the Dandora slum of Nairobi, Kenya. Men, women and children traipse through the murky sludge that weaves through mountains of garbage in Nairobi's notorious Dandora dump, hunting for anything that can be recycled to earn themselves enough for their daily bread - some of the poorest of Kenya's poor and those likely to be on Pope Francis' mind when he makes his first trip to Africa this week and brings his message of environmental stewardship and care for society's most marginal. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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President Obama takes part in a panel discussion at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at the United Nations Compound in Nairobi on July 25, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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University students leave after treatment at Kenyatta National Hospital, Sunday, April 12, 2015, in Nairobi, Kenya. One Kenyan student was killed and 141 injured in a stampede Sunday on the campus of the University of Nairobi when students mistook several accidental explosions for another extremist attack, according to an official. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)