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Showing posts with label Kenya. Show all posts
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Sunday, 17 October 2010

Kenya: Polygamous Obama's brother marries teenager

Malik Obama
Barack Obama's half brother in Kenya marries teenager - Telegraph:
The 19-year-old's mother told The Associated Press on Friday she is furious that her daughter quit high school and married the 52-year-old.

Mary Aoko Ouma says her daughter tried to marry Malik Obama two years ago, but the mother says she would not give permission.

Malik Obama, who is Muslim, has two other wives. Polygamy is legal in Kenya if it falls under religious or cultural traditions.

In an interview broadcast by Kenya's NTV that was filmed without his knowledge, Malik Obama says he married the 19-year-old but didn't say when.

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Kenya: German linked to terrorism alarms authorities

Daily Nation: - News |Alarm as German linked to terror enters Kenya:
His whereabouts in the country are unknown and authorities are alarmed because he wrote a will before leaving Germany for Kenya, indicating that he was headed for Somalia and would not return alive.

....Part of the police report reads: “He is on transit to Somalia. He left a declaration will to his mother that he will never return alive.”

Kenyan police suspect the man was referring to suicide bombing and are worried because he did not specify his targets.

Police said the German Government sent a report on the man through its embassy in Nairobi. It describes the suspect as Caucasian, slim, 175 centimetres tall and with brown hair.

It goes on to say his eyes are blue, he wears size 43 shoes and weighs 68 kilogrammes.

Police have in vain been looking for him since he entered Kenya.