On Thursday as Pope Francis attended events in Kenya, the government deployed 10,000 extra police officers to protect the spiritual leader of the Catholic Church.
But the Pope said security was the least of his worries.
"There are bad people, and there are good people. I am only worried about mosquitoes. Have you brought mosquito repellent?" Pope Francis asked a western journalist, according to a report on the Daily nation website.
Kenya has been rocked by numerous attacks from the Somali based Al-Shabab militant group since 2012, when they deployed their soldiers to Somalia following a number of kidnappings of aid workers and tourists
The terrorists have targeted churches in the Kenyan coast where they killed worshippers and maimed many others; their worst attack on a church claimed the lives of 17 people back in 2014. - Kenya
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