NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A U.S. artist handed out thousands of yellow balloons to Nairobi’s blue-collar commuters Monday, igniting broad smiles among Kenyans weighed down by two recent grenade blasts and warnings of a terror attack.
The giveaway took place near a bus stop where one person was killed in late October in a grenade attack blamed on a man who said he is a member of al-Shabab, Somalia’s most powerful militant group.
 
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