A Kenyan mother has named her new-born twins after US President Barack
Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Millicent Owuor, 20, gave birth to the twins in south-west Kenya on
the day Mr Obama was re-elected.
"I named the first twin Barack andthe second one Mitt," Ms Owuor
isquoted by Reuters news agency as saying.
Ms Owuor posed for photographers on Wednesday at the Siaya District
Hospital with hertwin boys.
She said she had named her twinsafter the winning and losing US
presidential candidates in order to remember the day of the vote,
Kenya's Standard newspaper reports.
Sarah Obama said she always had full faith her step-grandson wouldbe re-elected
The US president's father was born in Kenya and his step-grandmother,
Sarah Obama, still lives in the village of Kogelo.
The residents of Kogelo sang and danced after Mr Obama was declared the winner.
"The reason why he has won is because God has given it to him," said
Sarah Obama, who turns 90 this year.
"Secondly, he has got the knowledge to love all people, he doesn't
have the knowledge of division, that is why he has won."
Barack Obama senior died in a road accident in Kenya in 1982.
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