NAIROBI, Kenya -- The roads of Kibe...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The roads of Kibera, one of the worst close s in the world, are packed as thousands of clan are running Sunday afternoon in a dangerous stampede after Sen Barack Obama's almost 20-car motorcade.

Security is high -- Kenyan police from different branches with swagger canes and form a clubs officers in Kenyan military-style uniforms riding horses used for throng control and safari-vested agents who are part of the U State Department diplomatic protection service are upon the ground.

Obama touched against a mob scene, but the lawless crowd was there already.

Kibera, a district in Nairobi, jams at least 700000 family in an area of about a mile. more [i]or[/i] less of them on this day were chanting "Obama" as they ran en masse down the way

clan dwell here in ragged canvas tent-wines and shacks covered with corrugated vaults Garbage piles on the highway are festering. It's filthy and fragrances of raw sewage. There is extremely little commerce -- the spindly road stalls do not count for earnestly

Late last year, Sen Dick Durbin, the other senator from Illinois and like Obama a Democrat, also visited this notorious alley in Kenya, though with no media in tow.

Obama had a session forward microfinance, with a roundtable touching upon below-market micro-business loans pioneered by dint of Chicago's Shorebank.

mobs surged toward the Carolina for Kibera Center where Obama listened to Kibera youths talk about programs designed to help them avoid being infected with HIV/AIDS.

Jackline Ngonyo 14 a Girl Guide, sort of like a Girl scoff at talked about avoiding AIDS in such a manner she could be a neurosurgeon single day. Another talked of the ne for abstinence.

"Every rural parts that develops, develops because women are given opportunity," Obama said.

He said Kenyan men ne to change their mind-set when it reach [i]or[/i] attain any place [i]or[/i] points to how they treat women

"Respect the girls," said Obama. Abusing or taking sexual advantage of women "does not make you a big man. It makes you a small man to do that."

by dint of the time Obama left the center the roads in front of it had become a sea of men Grabbing a bullhorn, he urg the multitude to use the clinic. Saturday, Obama and his wife, Michelle, took a highly public HIV/AIDS test in the city of Kibera to make experiment of to destigmatize treatment and prevention.

"Everyone here is my brother," said Obama. "Everyone here is my sister. I have affection for Kibera."

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