NAIROBI, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- More than 7,000 Kenyan nationals are seeking government assistance to leave Lebanon, according to an official on Thursday.

Kenya's Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, also the cabinet secretary in the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, said that of an estimated 26,000 Kenyans in Lebanon, at least 7,119 have registered for evacuation from the conflict-ridden Middle East n