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Kenya Kicks Off Biggest Ever Security Operation for Barack Obama Welcome

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The US president was due to touch down on Air Force One on Friday evening for a weekend programme in the capital, Nairobi, that includes an international business summit, dinner with his Kenyan counterpart, Uhuru Kenyatta, and a major public address. Kenya is treating the visit as a chance to shine, akin to an Olympics or a football World Cup, and is all too aware how catastrophic another terrorist attack would be for its image. Three months ago Islamist militants murdered 148 people at a university in Garissa, while an attack on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall left at least 67 people dead less than two years ago. Hundreds of US security personnel have arrived in Kenya in recent weeks and three hotels have been examined by the secret service, according to local media

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