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Thursday, February 4, 2010

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Zeituni Onyango In Court Today

THIS IS WHERE KENYA ISWe're semi-eagerly awaiting a decision out of Boston today, mostly because it is a story with no relevance beyond political spectacle, regarding the deportation of the President's aunt. (Zeituni Onyango, who is a KENYAN, works as either a computer programmer or a public health advocate, or both, depending on what news outlet you are reading.) She was denied asylum in 2004; she is a member of the Luo minority in Kenya; by last year, as many as 600,000 people were "displaced" (that is, homeless) due to political and ethnic conflict. She has declined interviews. This retains my interest, I think, because it is one of those stories regarding which, the more you think about it, the less you are able to clearly summarize its news value.

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Matt
Matt (#26)

So can we get a live blog?

Ribs
Ribs (#2,690)

The Luo are the third-largest ethnic group in Kenya. So, they are Kenya's African-Americans?

Flashman
Flashman (#418)

Is this all gong on inside the Government Center

Flashman
Flashman (#418)

(edit feature does not work btw)

Jonathan Saffron Foyer

Is it just that this is newsworthy because it transitively raises awareness to a whole swathe of white people that there's TERRIBLE shit happening to people in another country, and that white people love awareness?

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