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President Obama's first trip to his father's homeland later this month will confront many of the challenges of his presidency back home, from Islamist terrorism to economic competition from China to his fight for gay rights. (Associated Press)

Obama, on Kenya visit, to confront terrorism surge, gay rights controversy

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Students of the Garissa University College take shelter in a vehicle after fleeing from an attack by gunmen in Garissa, Kenya, Thursday, April 2, 2015. Gunmen attacked the university early Thursday, shooting indiscriminately in campus hostels. Police and military surrounded the buildings and were trying to secure the area in eastern Kenya, police officer Musa Yego said. (AP Photo)

Al-Shabab militants kill 147 at Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya

By Tom Odula, Rodney Muhumuza and Khalil Senosi - Associated Press

Medics help an injured person at Kenyatta national Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, April, 2, 2015, after being airlifted from Garissa after an attack by gunmen at Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya on Thursday morning. (AP Photo)

Al-Shabab militants kill 147 at university in Kenya

By Tom Odula and Rodney Muhumuza and Khalil Senosi - Associated Press

In this photo taken from footage from Citizen TV, via the Kenya Defence Forces and made available Friday, Oct. 4 2013, a man reported to be Khatab Alkene, one of the four armed militants walking in a store at the Westgate Mall, during the four-day-long siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya which killed more than 60 people last month. A Kenyan military spokesman has confirmed the names of four attackers as Abu Baara al-Sudani, Omar Nabhan, Khattab al-Kene and Umayr. (AP Photo/ Kenyan Defence forces via Citizen TV)

Adan Garar, mastermind of Nairobi Westgate Mall attack, killed by U.S. drone

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Suspected Al-Shabab militant captured during Thursday's attack on African Union base are seen in Mogadishu, Somalia, in this Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Al-Shabab militants attack African Union base; 9 dead

By Abdi Guled - Associated Press

Kenyan security forces and others gather around the scene on an attack on a bus about 50 kilometers (31 miles) outside the town of Mandera, near the Somali border in northeastern Kenya, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014. Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels, al-Shabab, attacked the bus in northern Kenya at dawn on Saturday, singling out and killing 28 passengers who could not recite an Islamic creed and were assumed to be non-Muslims, Kenyan police said. (AP Photo)

Somalia’s al-Shabab kills 28 non-Muslims in Kenya

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Tourism, a major source of revenue for many African countries, especially Kenya and South Africa, is increasingly being hurt as some potential visitors hesitate over visiting the continent because of Ebola. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File)

GOULD: Travel to Africa taking a hit from Ebola

By Lark Gould

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, armed al-shabab fighters on pickup trucks prepare to travel into the city, just outside Mogadishu, in Somalia. U.S. military forces targeted the Islamic extremist al-Shabab network in an operation Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 in Somalia, the Pentagon said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

6 militants killed in US Somalia strike

By ABDI GULED - Associated Press

Residents barricade a road with burning tires and other roadblocks as they protest against the recent killings and what they claimed was the government's failure to provide them with enough security, in the village of Kibaoni just outside the town of Mpeketoni, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Somali border on the coast of Kenya Tuesday, June 17, 2014. (AP Photo)

Kenya president blames locals for deadly attacks

By Jason Straziuso - Associated Press

A man observes the remains of destroyed vehicles and buildings in the town of Mpeketoni, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Somali border on the coast of Kenya Monday, June 16, 2014. Dozens of Somali extremists wielding automatic weapons attacked the small Kenyan coastal town for hours, assaulting the police station, setting two hotels on fire, and spraying bullets into the street killing dozens, officials said Monday. (AP Photo)

Gunmen singled out non-Muslims in Kenya attack

By Tom Odula and Jason Straziuso - Associated Press

80 US Air Force personnel now in Chad to aid search for kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls

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Mohamed Aden, a malnourished two-year-old boy, sits on his mother's lap at Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Much of Somalia has seen no or erratic rains in recent months and fighting between African Union forces and the Islamic extremists of al-Shabab is cutting off food shipments to many parts of the country and discouraging farmers from planting - as a result, 50,000 children are severely malnourished, says the aid community. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Hunger in Somalia: Familiar menace could return

By ABDI GULED and JASON STRAZIUSO - Associated Press

In this photo taken late Thursday, May 15, 2014, British tourists queue to prepare to leave the international airport in Mombasa, Kenya. A number of British tourists left the country by charter flight Thursday following a new travel advisory from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advising against all but essential travel to Mombasa island. (AP Photo)

Bombings kill 10, wound 70 in Kenyan market

By JASON STRAZIUSO - Associated Press

Somali Member of Parliament Muse Sheikh Omar, center, carries a young Somali girl deportee as he helps Somalis who had been deported from Kenya to Somalia from their aircraft after it landed at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Kenya's security minister said Wednesday that 82 Somali nationals have been deported in an ongoing security crackdown following recent terror attacks in Kenya's capital and the port city of Mombasa. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Kenya deports 82 Somalis in terror crackdown

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press