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This frame taken from video shows a scene of an explosion in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, Tuesday Jan. 15, 2019. Gunfire and explosions were reported near an upscale hotel complex. (AP Photo/Josphat Kasire)

Extremists attack hotel in Nairobi; al-Shabab claims role

By Joseph Mwihia - Associated Press

This frame taken from video shows a scene of an explosion in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, Tuesday Jan. 15, 2019. Gunfire and explosions were reported near an upscale hotel complex. (AP Photo/Josphat Kasire)

The Latest: More gunfire heard in Kenya’s capital

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, a woman who scavenges recyclable materials from garbage for a living is seen through a cloud of smoke from burning trash, surrounded by Marabou storks who feed on the garbage, at the dump in the Dandora slum of Nairobi, Kenya. As the world meets again to tackle the growing threat of climate change, how the continent tackles the growing solid waste produced by its more than 1.2 billion residents, many of them eager consumers in growing economies, is a major question in the fight against climate change. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)ea

Africa’s solid waste is growing, posing a climate threat

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Nicholas Bett the latest road tragedy for Kenyan track

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

In this Jan. 17, 2018, photo, former reality show contestant Leah Wangari shows cabbages at an agricultural training farm in Limuru, near the capital Nairobi, in Kenya. An unusual new reality TV show backed by the U.S. government is the first of its kind in Africa, training young adults from Kenya and neighboring Tanzania in farming and giving them plots to cultivate, with a $10,000 prize for the most productive. (AP Photo/Sayyid Abdul Azim)

‘Can you dig it?’ Africa reality show draws youth to farming

By Tom Odula - Associated Press

Raila Odinga and his supporters say he is the rightful winner of Kenya's presidential election. (Associated Press/File)

Raila Odinga, Uhuru Kenyatta’s Kenya rival for president, pushes ‘inauguration’

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

A Kenyan man carried his belongings through Nairobi's slums after supporters of the National Super Alliance burned tires to block roads Wednesday before voters go to the polls. (Associated Press)

Kenya vote repeat sows doubt, fear of instability

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

Raila Odinga has withdrawn his candidacy for the fresh presidential election ordered by the country's Supreme Court, saying the election commission has not made the changes to avoid the "irregularities and illegalities" cited in the nullified August vote. (Associated Press/File)

Raila Odinga puts Kenya election in chaos by withdrawing as candidate

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

Opposition presidential candidate Raila Odinga, right, and his running mate, Kalonzo Musyoka, left, at the Supreme Court, in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Kenya's Supreme Court has overturned President Uhuru Kenyatta's re-election dismissing backing a petition by veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga who claimed votes had been manipulated to deny him victory. (AP Photo/Sayyid Abdul Azim)

Kenya court nullifies president’s win, calls for new vote

By Tom Odula - Associated Press

Kenya election dispute intensifies with conflicting claims

By Christopher Torchia - Associated Press

Cholera suspected as several ill at Kenya medical conference

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

The National Super Alliance was announced at a rally in Nairobi, Kenya, last month, with former Prime Minister Raila Odinga challenging President Uhuru Kenyatta in August elections. (Associated Press)

Kenya elections renew violence fears

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

Tents are seen at the UNHCR's Ifo Extension camp outside Dadaab, eastern Kenya, 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the Somali border, in this Friday, Aug. 5, 2011, file photo. A Kenyan court on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, declared illegal a government order to close the world's largest refugee camp and send more than 200,000 people back to war-torn Somalia. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Kenya court blocks closing of world’s biggest refugee camp

By Tom Odula - Associated Press

Indiana yoga instructor closing studio, teaching in Kenya

By EMMA EA AMBROSE - Associated Press

People help survivors retrieve their household items at the site of a building collapse in Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday, April 30, 2016. A six-story residential building in a low income area of the Kenyan capital collapsed Friday night under heavy rain and flooding, killing at least seven people and injuring over 100 others, Kenyan officials said. (AP Photo/Sayyid Abdul Azim)

Kenya: Woman found alive after 6 days in collapsed building

By Tom Odula - Associated Press

Pope Francis meets with Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni at the State House, in Entebbe, Uganda, Friday, Nov. 27, 2015. Pope Francis is in Africa for a six-day visit that is taking him to Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope praises Kenyans’ traditional family values

By by Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

In this photo taken Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, young members of the congregation sing and pray during a service at the St. Peter's Catholic Church in Garissa, Kenya. This Kenyan town in which Islamic extremists killed nearly 150 at a college of mostly Christian students in April offers a snapshot of what France and Lebanon, both targeted in recent attacks, and other countries face - the challenge of harmonizing Christian-Muslim relations at a time of danger from extremists - an issue that Pope Francis is expected to address during his trip Nov. 25-30 to Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Amid terror fears, pope presses ahead with Africa trip

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

One strong motivation for Pope Francis to make the trip is that the African church is an increasingly large share of the pontiff's overall flock. (Associated Press)

Pope Francis’ Africa visit generates excitement, unrealistic expectations

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

In this Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006, file photo, then U.S. Sen. Barack Obama meets with his step-grandmother Sarah Obama at his father's house in Kogelo, western Kenya. On Friday, July 24, 2015, Obama is due to arrive in Kenya, the country of his father's birth, for the first time since he was a U.S. senator in 2006, and the first stop on his two-nation African tour in which he will also visit Ethiopia. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim, File) **FILE**

Obama to meet extended family on visit to Kenya

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times