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...researchers will ask a series of behavioral questions to men who have sex with men starting next year in Nairobi, the western city of Kisumu and the coastal city of Mombasa. They will also try to estimate the number of men who are HIV-positive or have sexually transmitted diseases. Such a widespread survey has never been attempted in Kenya before. In a 2004 study in Nairobi, 500 men who have sex with other men were interviewed about their health practices, and in Mombasa in 2006 and 2008, 400 male prostitutes were questioned as part of two different sex surveys...
...discouraged violent robbery," The Daily Nation said in an editorial after the decision was announced. There are no current figures for the crime rate in Kenya, but the U.S. State Department says there is a "high rate of crime in all regions of Kenya, particularly Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, and at coastal beach resorts...
...Even if Obama had not won, I would still have done the same.' PAMELA ADHIAMBO, a Kenyan woman who named her newborn twins Barack and Michelle. More than half the babies born at Kenya's Kisumu Hospital on Nov. 5 were named after the President-elect or his wife...
...used had been made and could recite the lives of those who had made them." And so it is. Among the gathering Obamas are cousins Olga and Sasha, whose father married a Russian; cousin John Kennedy, who changed his name when he moved to the nearby city of Kisumu; Malik's brother Sadiq, who has brought his daughter Shami from Britain; and uncles Patrick, Tom and Elly and all their sons and daughters from Kendu Bay, who brew the moonshine behind their huts on the southern shores of Lake Victoria. The Luo, the Obamas' tribe, have no word for cousin...
Some Kenyans clearly had a sense of humor about their country's expectations for an Obama presidency. The local press recently published a piece saying that politicians in the western city of Kisumu had proposed expanding a runway to accommodate Air Force One in case Obama decides to pay a state visit to his ancestral home. As much as that may reflect the depth of Kenyan hopes, the item was a joke meant to poke fun at the expectation by some that Obama will shower Kenya with favors should he win the election. - By Nicholas Wadhams/Nairobi...