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President Obama decision could cost Kenya a fortune

The decision by the US President Barack Obama to skip Kenya, the land of his father, during his tour of three African countries, will have a fundamental and far reaching bearing on the US-Kenya relations especially in trade, military  and diplomatic fronts.

By deliberately skipping Kenya, Obama is sending a thinly veiled signal that the US is slowly but gradually downgrading the relationship with Nairobi and as such, Kenya is not the regional political, military,  diplomatic and economic powerhouse it used to be in the past.

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