Kenyan babies named after Air Force One

Obama earned vociferous applause from 4,500 Kenyans at a sports arena in the capital, Nairobi, by throwing down the gauntlet over the rights of women and girls.

The head of the National Independent Church of Africa, Bishop Stephen Karunyu, said that the “courage by President Uhuru to respond to the gay matter in front of President Obama should be emulated by many who do not support such orientations”.

The Ethiopian political crackdown has extended to US citizens.

The president, whose father was from Kenya, got right to the point on the first topic, saying, “There’s no excuse for sexual assault or domestic violence”. The battered Volkswagen his sister drove.

But evidently he thought better of it. He waved and smiled at them instead and headed up the stairs of his plane to depart for the last time as president. As he headed from his helicopter to Air Force One, Obama paused as if tempted to go over and greet them, as he does with crowds at nearly any airport in the United States and many overseas.

“My nightmare was that someone might sneak in and do something nasty”, police Inspector General Joseph Boinnet said, referring to fears of attacks by Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab militants from across the border in Somalia.

The talks at State House were attended by Deputy President William Ruto, who is facing charges at the global Criminal Court that he fomented ethnic killings after Kenya’s disputed 2007 election.

“My grandmother, Mama Sarah, who told me I had to come back to Kenya”, said the U.S. commander-in-chief in his speech, before jokingly adding that when her grandmother directs something “generally you have to do it”.

“When it comes to the people of Kenya, especially the youth, I believe there is no limit to what you can achieve”, Obama said.

“You are poised to play a bigger role in this world”, the president said.

Obama planned meetings with Ethiopia’s president and prime minister, and a separate session with regional leaders to discuss the situation in South Sudan, a young nation gripped by turmoil since civil war broke out in December 2013.

Mr Obama warned about the risks of government corruption, calling it an “anchor” that could weigh down the country’s promising future.

But the heart of the speech was more lecture than reminiscence, as he used his standing as a beloved son of Kenya to critique a country still fraught with tribalism, sexism, and corruption. For the first time he had visited Kenya thirty years back.