Kenyan-born US senator “exploring ways” of helping home province
BBC archive ^ | March 23, 2006 | N/A
Posted on December 3, 2009 4:30:54 AM EST by Jet Jaguar
The Standard website, Nairobi - March 23, 2006
Kenyan-born US senator “exploring ways” of helping home province
Illinois Senator Barrack Obama is exploring ways of using his influence in the US to increase funding for various projects he sponsors in Nyanza Province. Obama’s foreign policy adviser, Mark Lippert, who toured some of the projects sponsored through Care International, said the senator was particularly keen on the welfare of people in Siaya, where his father hailed from.Lippert disclosed that he had been sent by Obama on a fact finding mission on the success and impact...
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For the record, BBC news article(s), besides their archives of the Nairobi Standard, stated Obama was Kenyan born. It was one of the first Obama Kenyan born articles to pop up on the radar, but before anyone thought of doing a screen capture of it, BBC quickly scrubbed the Kenyan born statement from the article(s). There’s a FR thread about it, which linked to the article before it was scrubbed.