Found just recently-oil in Kenya and they will be the first to export in the region: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-04/tullow-africa-oil-may-sell-half-of-kenyan-fields-to-share-costs.html...Water was also recently found in abundance in Kenya: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/opinion/where-water-is-gold.html?_r=0...Liquid gold oozing from the ground. Oil would make them the rich. Water would make them self sufficient and more rich, irrigation for crops, clean water for drinking, even exporting around the drought stricken continent. Truly a country who may have just hit the natural resources lotto. Al-Quaeda decides to attack a high end mall where wealthy people tend to shop, these are the people who can change policy. In fact a U.S. ambassadors wife was among the dead: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/22/attack-on-nairobi-mall-kills-10-people/...I just have this hunch that they will soon need U.S. forces in country to help secure the public from these terrorists. Or are they rebels? I guess it depends on which country is in question. It is likely better to have those with experience in these matters (empire building) handle things, it would be just crazy to allow a country to blaze their own trail anyway, right? note* posted similar earlier, but after a few edits disappeared from "new" sorry if redux