Major Nairobi roads will be temporarily closed and authorities said the international airport will be closed at times coinciding with Obama’s landing and departure Sunday for Ethiopia. Safaricom, a mobile network operator, warned of disruptions while Obama is in Nairobi to meet entrepreneurs and hold talks with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.

“We recognize the fact that as the most protected individual in the world, there will be some security measures undertaken by his team which could include the temporary disruption of mobile signals close to where the President is at any given time,” Safaricom said.

Al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, has conducted major attacks in Kenya, including the 2013 attack on Nairobi’s Westgate mall and an April attack in Garissa town that killed nearly 150 people.

In a report about security threats in the country ahead of Obama’s visit, CNN claimed Kenya was a “terror hotbed.” The suggestion drew the ire of Kenya’s Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery, who has called on the network to apologize.

“This announcement is based on lies. It demonstrates heightened irresponsibility by the media network and smacks of arrogance,” Nkaissery said, according to the Daily Nation newspaper.

Kenyans also took to social media to ridicule the network, using the hashtag#SomeoneTellCNN.

Source: The Star (Toronto)