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- Obama arrived Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for talks with leaders on
counterterrorism efforts against al-Shabab in Somalia, and human rights abuses
and looming famine in neighboring South Sudan. His visit marks the first by a
sitting U.S. president to Ethiopia, which is home to the African Union, and also
to Kenya, his father’s birthplace. In a major speech Sunday in the capital of
Nairobi, Obama referred to himself as a "Kenyan American" and joked about
critics who said he was there to look for his birth certificate. We go to
Nairobi for an update from Aggrey Mutambo, a reporter at the Daily Nation, the
principal English-language newspaper in Kenya. He covered Obama’s visit for the
paper. We are also joined by Salim Lone, a Kenyan journalist, political adviser
and former director of the News and Media Division of the United Nations. From
2005 to 2012, he was the spokesperson for then-Prime Minister Raila Odinga of
Kenya.
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