US President Barack Obama on Saturday said Kenya was a dangerous destination for international reporters.
In a speech in Washington to US journalists and political leaders, Mr Obama said in regard to foreign correspondents.
“They’ve risked everything to bring us stories from places like Syria and Kenya, stories that need to be told,” he said.
Mr Obama did not explain why he coupled Kenya with Syria, a country devastated by a civil war that has killed some 70,000 people.
His remark was part of his speech at a dinner sponsored by the Gridiron Club and Foundation.
The annual event serves as an occasion for a US president to make humorous comments about politics and the media.
Mr Obama followed that tradition on Saturday night, but toward the end of his speech, he told the audience, “Now, I do want to end on a serious note.”
He then prefaced his comment about Kenya and Syria by saying to the journalists in attendance, “the truth is our country needs you and our democracy needs you.”
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Saturday, March 9, 2013 – 00:00 — BY POLITICAL DESK
Word doing the rounds say that a senior Cord coalition official was reportedly given millions of shillings — the figure being bandied about is Sh20 million— to pay party agents in parts of Central and Rift Valley regions. The money was to pay the CORD agents who were deployed to all the polling stations during Monday’s elections to ensure the exercise went according to the law. However, by 6 pm the money had not reached the agents and their growing restlessness reached the ears of a rival coalition whose top hierarchy quickly mobilized the cash and paid the CORD agents!
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Economic factors that make Uhuru a powerful and one of the most sought African president by the Western diplomats are many.
Oil and Gas discoveries and confirmation of their commercial values, coalmines, titanium export, and gold and geothermal power generation are key attractions pulling edgy investors to Kenya.
This wealth alongside massive infrastructure programs under Chinese contractors and a successful anti-terror operation in Somalia makes Kenya an attractive besides strategic development partner and investment hub.
Kenya no longer leans on the West for development programs; rather, it has set the terms of diplomatic engagement very clear, that, only development partnership makes diplomatic relations sense.
This puts the West and the European Union in such an awkward position and seemingly losing face after failing to stymies the Kenyatta presidency.
Kenyatta insists, Kenya does not need the West than the West needs Kenya, a very significant statement since Russia, China, and the Asian economies have become Kenya’s strategic development partners.
By failing to work with Kenyatta, the West risks losing vital assets, investments, and funded programs managed by international NGO’s and the United Nations Development programs across East and central Africa.
The West will need this man, more than Kenya needs them.
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it very correct west needs Kenya n Our elect president more than we need him to them right now he is hotcake n the west can not do without Kenya