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By Davis Mwandawiro

Kenyans on social media woke up to a CNN report today morning that referred to Kenya as a hotbed of terror. This report coming in just before President Obama’s arrival rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. US President Obama will be in Kenya over the weekend where he is scheduled to co-host the (GES) Global Entrepreneurship Summit with President Uhuru Kenyatta. CNN also tweeted

This is  Obama’s first visit to his ancestral homeland as president and the first ever visit of any sitting US president. According to CNN, they believe that Al-Shabaab militants are posing new threats to his arrival and may be prompted to conduct an attack. This follows after US military conducted air strikes in Somalia. However, reports from the US officials indicate that the militant group cannot get anywhere near the president but may attempt to hit a soft target while Obama is in Kenya.

This is not the first time that Kenyans have disagreed with CNN reports and have used the hashtag #someonetellCNN 4 or 5 times in the last three years to protest what they deem as unfair coverage given to Kenya on CNN.

 

 

Nonetheless, some decided to grab the opportunity to showcase Kenya’s beauty on social media using the same hashtag. To show the other side of Kenya that CNN missed in their report.

Some took it upon themselves to remind CNN of the problems that America facing such as shootings, racial injustice among others.

What do you have to say to CNN?