US-Kenya relations
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U.S. assistance to Kenya is substantial.[5] It promotes broad-based economic development as the basis for continued progress in political, social, and related areas of national life. The U.S. assistance strategy is built around five broad objectives: Fighting disease and improving healthcare; fighting poverty and promoting private sector-led prosperity; advancing shared democratic values, human rights, and good governance; cooperating to fight insecurity and terrorism; and collaborating to foster peace and stability in East Africa. The Peace Corps, which has 150 volunteers in Kenya, is integral to the overall U.S. assistance strategy in Kenya.
Principal U.S. Officials include:
Ambassador—Robert F. Godec since January, 2013
Deputy Chief of Mission—Pamela Slutz
USAID Mission Director—Erna Kerst
Public Affairs Officer—T.J. Dowling
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USAID months later issued a solicitation seeking private-sector help in carrying out an information-dissemination project aimed at swaying public opinion on U.S. "investments" in Kenya. The USAID/Kenya Strategic Communications Plan 2012–2013 explicitly laid out the Obama Administration's plan to "groom" journalists worldwide to encourage favorable reporting of U.S. assistance efforts. The strategic plan explicitly named particular journalists for targeting, encouraging potential contractors to "Engage a few key international journalists, such as the Economist? 's Africa Baobab blog, the Washington Post? 's [Africa Bureau Chief] Sudarsan Raghavan, the New York Times [East Africa Bureau Chief] Jeffrey Gettleman and AP's [Kenya correspondent] Jason Straziuso in following our progress on targeted issues." Similarly it calls for developing relationships with Kenyan media personalities including "bloggers such as Bankelele, The Young Agropreneur, Kenyanfarmer and DJs of popular radio programs such as DJ Prince of Ghetto Radio, Cess and Maqbul on Capital FM."[7]
Following the U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor report on this media targeting, however, USAID swiftly pulled the USAID/Kenya Strategic Communications Plan 2012–2013 from public view. The agency initially made the document available via the Federal Business Opportunities database, but soon after removed it, claiming that its posting of the document was accidental, intended "'for internal purposes only.'"[8]
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Early in 2013, the Obama Administration via the U.S. Agency for International Development issued a Request for Proposals seeking contractor assistance in encouraging peace between warring tribes and cattle-raiders in and around Kenya.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya%E2%80%93United_States_relations
"I will be going to my father's home country of Kenya, and we will be going to Ethiopia, as well. That's my first visit there, but this is my fourth visit to sub-Saharan Africa, more than any other U.S. president — which, I guess, if your name is Barack Obama, I guess that make sense," the president told a gathering at a reception Wednesday celebrating the African Growth and Opportunity Act, a trade program focusing on sub-Saharan African nations.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/long-way-home-obamas-kenya-trip-highlights-roots-policy-n397436
USAID is notoriously corrupt using DynCorp or Raythorn. They built resorts and soccer fields contracted over a million for. My guess is there are get rich quick schemes at play here.
Obama promises more financial aid to Kenya while lecturing country on anti-gay policies
President Barack Obama told Kenya on Saturday the United States was ready to work more closely in the battle against Somalia’s Islamist group al Shabaab, but chided his host on gay rights and said no African state should discriminate over sexuality.
Obama also said during his first visit as president to his father’s homeland that Kenya had to tackle corruption by showing it was prosecuting culprits, saying it would spur growth. Graft is cited as a major obstacle to business across Africa.
The U.S. president has been seeking to strengthen business ties with a continent that is home to some of the world’s fastest growing economies. Earlier on Saturday he addressed a U.S.-sponsored conference to encourage entrepreneurs.
But security was high on the agenda in talks with his counterpart President Uhuru Kenyatta, whose country has suffered a spate of attacks by al Shabaab militants.
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Kenya, like many African states, outlaws homosexual relations. Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto, who attended talks with Obama, said in May there was “no room” for gays in Kenya.
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“There are some things that we must admit we don’t share – our culture, our societies don’t accept,” Kenyatta said.
https://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/obama-promises-more-financial-aid-to-kenya-while-lecturing-country-on-anti-gay-policies/
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