Roses under armed escort out of Kenya for Valentine's Day

In a country strangled by anger and fear, it is taking armed escorts and emergency airlifts to transport Kenya’s most warm-hearted export – the rose - abroad for Valentine’s Day.

Kenyan flowers – mostly roses – account for a quarter of Europe’s cut flower imports, and Kenyan growers have been pushing to keep exports up for the holiday despite ethnic violence that has paralysed the East African country.