Kenyans pray during a church service in Nairobi for the victims of the Westgate Shopping Centre attack, Sept. 29, 2013. With presidential elections scheduled for Aug. 8, the country hopes to avoid the levels of violence seen during 2007 elections. In this Visual Anthology, Stratfor takes a look back over the intervening decade. 

Kenya has a sizable elephant population that, thanks to efforts to stem illegal poaching, is back on the rise.

The expansive Kibera slum in Nairobi, thought to be the largest urban slum in Africa.

Supporters of the National Super Alliance party listen to opposition leader and presidential candidate Raila Odinga during a campaign rally in Nairobi on July 18. 

Supporters of the Jubilee Party of Kenya attend a campaign rally in Nairobi on July 21. The man in front wears a mask of current Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.

The chairperson for Kenya's National Super Alliance in Kisumu, Aug. 2. Portraits of longtime opposition leader Raila Odinga cover the walls. 

Elements of the Kenya Defense Forces and Royal Jordanian Armed Forces participate in a combat simulation in Nairobi in 2016.

A Kenya Wildlife Services ranger stands guard in front of illegal stockpiles of burning elephant tusks at the Nairobi National Park in April 2016. Kenya torched its vast ivory stockpile in a grand gesture aimed at shocking the world into stopping the slaughter of elephants.

Kenyan Maasai Morans (warriors) relay the GPS coordinates of two young lionesses they tracked on foot through the surrounding scrub of the Selenkay community conservancy in September 2016. Many indigenous Maasai Morans have foregone their ancestral role as lion-hunters to instead protect big cats under a conservation scheme known as Lion Guardians.

Somali refugee children collect firewood on the edge of the Ifo refugee camp, which makes up part of the giant refugee settlement in Dadaab, Kenya.