Nairobi - US president-elect Barack Obama's grandmother, Sarah Obama, 86, is to become an ambassador in the fight against malnutrition in her native Kenya, The Standard newspaper reported Saturday.

Sarah Obama would work on an anti-malnutrition campaign by the Kisumu Kids' Empowerment Organization, the report said.

Kisumu, which is located on the shores of Lake Victoria, is Kenya's third largest city and some 70 kilometres from Sarah Obama's native village of Kogelo in the west of the country.

Kogelo (Kenya), Nov. 5 : Relatives of U. S. President elect Barack Obama are celebrating his victory in Kogelo in western Kenya.

According to a report in the Guardian, Obama’s Kenyan relatives streamed out of Mama Sarah''s compound, dancing and singing loudly in the local Luo language: "We are going to Obama, we are going to the White House."

Nairobi - Kenyans took to the streets early Wednesday morning to celebrate Barack Obama's election to the White House as the nation's president declared a national holiday.

In downtown Nairobi and in Kibera, one of Africa's largest slums, people dressed in suits on their way to work joined those who had stayed up all night watching the election returns to dance and chant Obama's name.

Nairobi - In the tiny north-western Kenyan village of El-Hadi, two Gabbra pastoralists prepare to take their herd of bleating sheep and goats out to pasture.

The short rains have just come, and shoots of grass are springing up around the cluster of domed huts being warmed by the early morning sun.

At first glance, the scene seems to embody the pastoral idyll, but it belies serious problems in Kenya's arid north.

Population pressures, exacerbated by climate change, have led to constant armed clashes between tribes fighting for dwindling water sources and pasture.

The residents of El-Hadi, which sits in rocky terrain around 20 kilometres from the Ethiopian border, know all too well about the troubles.

Wednesday Nairobi/Kogelo - US presidential favourite Barack Obama's Kenyan family were gathering for an election night party in the western village of Kogelo Tuesday as US voters went to the polls.

Around 20 family members had shown up at the senator's ancestral home in Kogelo, where his grandmother Sarah Obama still lives.

Journalists and well-wishers were locked out of the Obama household as the party got under way.

Nairobi, Nov 3: Even as it is less than 24 hours to go for the US presidential poll, people in Kenya, the heartland of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s family, prayed for his victory in Nov 4 poll.

At the famous Kisumu''s Baptist Church, dozens of Christian faithful sang and prayed for Obama, who has become the East African nation’s ‘favourite son’, who is all set to occupy the White House.

Raising their hands in the air, the worshippers sang prayers into a chorus over keyboard tunes belting through a homemade woofer, reported Pakistani daily The News.