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| Kenya demands CNN apology over 'hotbed of terror' slur | Kenya demands CNN apology over 'hotbed of terror' slur |
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| Kenya's interior minister has called on US news channel CNN to apologise for calling East Africa a "hotbed of terror" ahead of President Barack Obama's visit on Friday. | Kenya's interior minister has called on US news channel CNN to apologise for calling East Africa a "hotbed of terror" ahead of President Barack Obama's visit on Friday. |
| It would make an apology "if it was civilised enough", Joseph Nkaissery said at a news conference. | |
| The hashtag #SomeoneTellCNN is trending worldwide as Kenyans condemned CNN, which has not yet commented. | The hashtag #SomeoneTellCNN is trending worldwide as Kenyans condemned CNN, which has not yet commented. |
| Its report focused on the threat posed by the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab group. | Its report focused on the threat posed by the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab group. |
| Mr Obama was "not just heading to his father's homeland, but to a region that's a hotbed of terror", said the CNN report. | Mr Obama was "not just heading to his father's homeland, but to a region that's a hotbed of terror", said the CNN report. |
| 'Soft target' | |
| With its headquarters in neighbouring Somalia, al-Shabab has carried out a spate of attacks in Kenya. | With its headquarters in neighbouring Somalia, al-Shabab has carried out a spate of attacks in Kenya. |
| In the worst atrocity, 148 people were killed when it carried out a day-long assault on Garissa University College in April. | |
| Mr Nkaissery said Kenya was at risk of attack like any other country, but this did not turn it into a "hotbed of terror". | |
| "I urge Kenyans to treat the @CNN report with the contempt it deserves," he said, according to a tweet by Kenya's privately owned Daily Nation newspaper. | |
| CNN quoted security analyst Seth Jones analyst as saying that al-Shabab could carry out an attack during Mr Obama's visit. | |
| "Security for the president is likely to be very significant and that means what Al-Shabaab is likely to do, based on what it has done very recently, is go for a soft target," he said. | |
| On Twitter, Kenyans criticised the report. | |
| On Wednesday, Kenya's civil aviation authority said the East African state's airspace would be shut for a 50-minute window ahead of Mr Obama's arrival in the capital Nairobi. | |
| A ban on planes flying lower than 20,000 feet will remain in place in Nairobi for the duration of Mr Obama's three-day visit, it added. | |
| The US issued a travel warning for Kenya in July ahead of the visit. |