Headline Roundup • July 26th, 2015
Obama Criticizes Kenya
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Wall Street Journal (News)
Introducing himself as the U.S.’s first Kenyan-American president, Barack Obama sought to use his unlikely success story and personal ties to his father’s homeland to inspire a country he described as “at a crossroads.”
Mr. Obama, in a speech on Sunday before several thousand Kenyans at an indoor sports arena, said Kenya is caught between intensifying security concerns over the spread of terrorism and the promise of a democracy wi
Blaze Media
President Barack Obama mixed blunt messages to Kenya’s leaders Saturday with warm reflections on his family ties to a nation that considers him a local son.
He foreshadowed a focus on Kenya in his post-White House life, saying, “I’ll be back.”
President Barack Obama forcefully disagreed with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on gay rights as they stood right by each other in a joint news conference on Saturday.
"With respect to the rights of gays and lesbians, I've been consistent all across Africa on this," Obama said, "I believe in the principle of treating people equally under the law, and that they are deserving of equal protection under the law, and that the state should not discriminate a
