27 Jul 2015

Watch: President Obama criticizes Kenya over LGBT rights

The US and Kenyan presidents differed sharply in their at a news conference on the first full day of Barack Obama's visit to Africa

Visiting his father’s Kenyan homeland, US president says ‘bad things happen’ when governments get into habit of treating people differently

Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta said Kenya did not share the same values.

Mr Kenyatta described the question of gay rights as "really a non-issue" in Kenya, saying that the country needed to concentrate on other areas "that are day-to-day living for our people".

Watch the exchange below: