Kenya prepares for Obama visit
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Photos of the day - July 23, 2015
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Customers walk past a statue depicting a NYPD officer at the entrance of a fast-food restaurant in Nairobi
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A survivor of the August 1998 U.S. embassy bombing holds a placard as he protests outside the memorial park ahead of a scheduled state visit by U.S. President Obama, in Kenya's capital Nairobi
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Kenyan artist Yegon alias "Yegonizer" works on a portrait of U.S. President Obama at a studio in Nairobi
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Rosa Anyango poses for a photograph as she carries a bag with the colors of the U.S. flag as she walks from the market near the ancestral home of U.S. President Barack Obama in Nyangoma village in Kogelo
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Madegwa prepares to display a t-shirt newly printed with the image of U.S. President Obama in Nairobi
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Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama, also known as Mama Sarah, step-grandmother of U.S. President Barack Obama, talks during an interview with Reuters at their ancestral home in Nyangoma village in Kogelo
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Students attend a class session at the Senator Obama primary school near ancestral home of U.S. President Barack Obama in Nyangoma village in Kogelo
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Boys named named after U.S. President Barack Obama pose for a photograph inside their classroom at the Senator Obama primary school in Nyangoma village in Kogelo
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A security guard walks past a wall mural depicting U.S. President Barack Obama outside the Go-Down Art Centre in Kenya's capital Nairobi
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Wider Image: Kogelo, Kenya - Obama's Ancestral Home
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In his first trip to Kenya since he was a U.S. senator in 2006, President Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive in Kenya on Friday, the first stop on his two-nation African tour in which he will also visit Ethiopia. On July 25, Obama will visit Nairobi to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, which brings together business leaders, international organizations and governments. (AP)
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