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Obama uphill task to navigate delicate Kenya, US relationship

Barack Obama may not get quite the rapturous welcome he did when he visited Kenya as a senator back in 2006, but his presence in his ancestral home is something of a coup for the Kenyan leadership, and he can expect a warm reception.

Kenya has never had a sitting US president visit before, and, understandably, there is a sense of enormous pride.

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