Since University Lecturers and Teachers in Kenya downed their tools because of poor wages and poor working conditions, Doctors across the country have joined the strike to demand for higher wages and radical reforms in the health sector following the collapse of the health care system as a result of perpetual corruption and mismanagement.
Better still, the Doctors have called for “the mother of all demonstrations” in Nairobi today, Wednesday, 19th September thereby taking the strike a notch higher and opening possibilities for countrywide strikes that could further attract attention to the plight of the striking workers and expose government incompetence in dealing with the crisis. A call last week by President Mwai Kibaki for “dialogue” instead of strike has been ignored by the workers whose leaders have become even more militant in the face of intimidation by the government which threatened to sack all the striking workers.
With the education and health sectors effectively paralyzed as a result of the industrial actions which have been taken by the gallant workers, the least millions of suffering Kenyans expected was for the fragile coalition government to address the grievances of the striking workers because the affected sectors are at the very heart of public service in the country.
A significant observation with respect to the character of the strike actions is that the striking workers appear to have learnt the deceitful antiques of the government especially during negotiations and this time around, the Union leaders are much more militant on the question of their demands being met before they can return to work.
Another observation is that the workers have no support especially from established political parties which could have exploited the situation by supporting the workers even for political mileage six months ahead of general elections. Lack of political support is evidence that Workers in Kenya are fundamentally without political representation even though they are the main tax payers. Where is ODM, PNU, TNA, UDF, URP, KANU, Mbas, Narc-Kenya, Wiper “Demolition” Party and other ragtag parties seeking power in Kenya?
At the moment, it is only KRA supporting the workers and this situation is unlikely to change because the ethnic parties are not ideologically equipped to take up Workers’ struggles in Kenya. At best, these parties would rather maintain the status quo of ensuring that workers are kept away from the running of society although the workers are the key contributors to the national economy.
Established parties mainly led by opportunists cannot support the striking workers because strike actions are revolutionary tactics during class war-fare in capitalist societies and since the parties on the ground are neither revolutionary nor anti-capitalist, supporting the striking workers could be politically suicidal regardless of the legitimacy of the Workers’ demands. It is for this reason that the parties have largely remained tight-lipped.
Likewise, non-governmental organizations and human rights groups are also unable to come out publicly to support the striking workers because these organizations are mainly funded by Western Imperialism and supporting the workers could lead to a freeze of funding and an end to normal business. For this reason, the striking workers are politically on their own although, from an ideological standpoint, they are making very serious political statements through the strikes.
Is there anything else the workers need to know as they become even more militant, daring and confrontational with a dumb government led by thieves and robbers who have refused to give them attention even in the face of a very serious crisis created by their strike action?
Collapse of the system responsible for crisis
For the Kenya Red Alliance, the situation in Kenya has reached a stage where a Workers’ Party with a clear agenda of power take-over is the only way through which the economic and working conditions of all workers in Kenya can be transformed. What the workers ought to understand is that the current breed of politicians in Kenya will never address their grievances and the best option is for all workers in Kenya to start thinking about joining a political formation that can transform workers’ struggles into a strategy for power take-over. Isn’t it surprising that even the Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) has been unable to support the workers because COTU is a bourgeoisie organization led by millionaire Atwoli?
The short-sightedness of the striking workers is that because of lack of active class politics in Kenya, the workers are looking towards corrupt Cabinet ministers working for the system to listen to their grievances and then, hopefully, address them. This will never happen because the capitalist ruling class is conspiratorial and, as this class continues to loot the economy, its thieving members are more interested is short-term solutions which will get the workers “back to work” even if the workers end up empty handed.
With over 15 million workers in Kenya, a Party that represents worker’s interests across the country can come to power through the ballot but the problem is that ideas needed for the setting up of such a Party are unavailable openly to the workers who continue to expect the traditional ethnic parties to come to their rescue. In short, there is no political alternative workers can turn to and that is why KRA is being built.
The key role of KRA is to introduce working class politics in the political market place where ideas ought to compete for attention from the electorate. Kenyan workers have been given one side of the coin for too long. It is time that the rotten system of capitalism breeding strike actions by disenchanted workers and allowing corrupt politicians to loot the economy endlessly is challenged with socialist ideas that seeks to put to an end the excesses of capitalism, an outdated system that has ruined the lives of millions of Kenyans.
One of the biggest problems which leaders of the striking workers need to understand is that in the Kenyan case, the system cannot be reformed for it to work because it is rotten beyond reform. The illusion among workers that the current breed of politicians will solve workers’ problems needs to be wiped out with fresh and radical politics that seeks to expose political stagnation and decay of capitalism so that the crisis can be better understood. For example, privatization of the health care sector under the system is responsible for lack of drugs in government hospitals while loop-holes for corruption within the system are responsible for the collapse of services in government hospitals.
From the point of view of KRA, the collapse of the system is directly responsible for the deepening institutional and infrastructural crises that continue to force workers into taking industrial actions as Kenyans suffer. The solution lies in the abolition of this rotten system so that empty-headed and greedy tumbo-kubwa politicians stealing from the public can be replaced with workers’ representatives whose agenda is to serve society, not to loot it.
The process of changing the system is what requires a revolution. The name of this revolution is “Socialist revolution” and its key leaders are the striking workers whom, by virtue of their role in production, provision of services and creation of wealth can run society in the interest of society.
KRA will continue to re-visit the issue of the Kenyan revolution because it is the task of the Alliance to provide the ideas necessary for raising the consciousness of workers in Kenya. This is because the main revolution begins in the mind.
While sporadic strike actions could plunge the corrupt ruling class into intermittent crises, political organization of workers through a Party vying for power is the ultimate weapon that will eventually slay the dragon to open the way for real transformation of the Kenyan society. In the meantime, strike actions of workers will come and go but the key problems will remain to haunt one generation after another in a never ending cycle.
Okoth Osewe
Secretary General
Kenya Red Alliance (KRA)
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MY KENYA, MY STRIKING NATION.
September 6, 2012
Every body is striking! Teachers are striking demanding a 300% pay rise; doctors at KNH are striking demanding pay rise; Mombasa hooligans demonstrated demanding the resurrection of Sheikh Rogo; four MPs from the South-rift resigned (read STRIKE ) from a parliamentary committee on Resettlement of May Evictees demanding action on the Government side; Students are striking demanding shorter skirts and shorts; Campus Divas are striking demanding for Rich Men while Campus Hunks are striking demanding for Rich Women. Literally, Kenya is a striking nation! Najivunia kuwa mkenya.
In 1997 teachers were tricked in the name of a promise of 300% pay rise. Very outrageous but nobody cared because all that mattered was for Moi to get the 200k plus votes from teachers. In an electioneering year, expect anything. As always, a trick and a lie often spend a lot of time together and hence are very similar. A lie is known to require another lie which requires another lie that requires another lie…to hold water. It’s a vicious cycle of lies.
As it is, the Government lies – promises? – to the teachers have reached their expected end. After 15years and nothing to show of except for more promises, what next? STRIKE. The best way to express grievances in Kenya. What’s the government going to do? Well, either churn out another string of promises or fulfill the ’97 promise through Kilonzo.
Talking about Mutula, I remember his interference with school management. I remember his public declaration of war against long skirts and shorts in schools. I wonder when he was born and schooled. Without overemphasizing the issue, Mutula paved way for the introduction of miniskirts and tumbo-cuts in schools. Ever heard of the proverbial traveller who found himself out of the tent after allowing the camel’s nose into the tent?
The damage has been done and the moral decay started. The Minister under threat is none other than Prof. Kamar. The madam incharge of the Higher Education Ministry. Madam Professor, what are you going to do with Campus Divas for Rich Men now that they are qualified Kenyan Citizens but still under your docket? Buy the way, why has the Minister kept mum on this issue yet it has been all over the media? Is she waiting for a miracle to happen?
Talking of miracles, Pastors will soon be on the rampage. Every Kenyan always has a grievance to demonstrate against. What they only require is a trigger. Pastors already have more than one trigger. What with their discovered miracle scheme? How about the constant knocks by the KRA guys at their pulpit? Not for prayers but for tax. Talk of the church bombing and burning that has become rampant! They have all reasons to strike!!!
With all these and many more, Kenya is no longer a walking or working nation …but a STRIKING NATION.
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Two mass graves discovered in Tana delta
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Security personnel yesterday made a landmark discovery of two mass graves of the Pokomo militia gangs shot during the Kilelengwani raid on Monday last week. Police claim they shot 20 raiders during the attack and the gangs carried and buried the dead some 40 metres after crossing the River Tana. Tana Rriver County Commissioner Joseph Rotich said the mass graves may have 10 bodies each.
During the Kilelengwani raid, the gang of more than 300 attackers left 38 people dead including nine security officers and 29 Orma pastoralists. They too suffered casualties but did not leave their dead behind. Rotich said the gang’s propaganda about oath-taking to prevent bullets hurting their bodies had now been proved wrong after the discovery of the mass graves which he termed as “a major breakthrough”.
“The matter is now being handled by the police to see the possibility of getting a court order with a view to getting permission to exhume the bodies,” Rotich said. He could not tell the exact number of bodies and items buried in the mass graves. Witnesses have recalled how the raiders organised themselves, with some providing security around a perimeter, others killing the villagers and others burning houses.
Another group was in charge of carrying away casualties to ensure they were not left behind after the attacks. Rotich said the gang took a traditional oath vowing never to leave a casualty behind to prevent identification. Witnesses of the deadly massacre described it as well organised and suspected there were professionals both serving and retired officers from the military or other security organs.
The graves were discovered by police officers who are currently mopping up all illegal weapons in the region following intelligence reports that 300 militias are hiding in the dense Ozi forest. Five firearms belonging to the police officers who were killed are still missing. The security operation involves more than 2,000 officers from the Police, GSU, and Administration Police.
Twenty suspected members of the Pokomo militia gang have been rounded up. Among those arrested were two assistant chiefs from Ozi and Kipini sub-locations. The officers have recovered 17 spears, 32 pangas, six axes, two pairs of binoculars, police uniforms, military boots, sleeping bags, thunder flash, Dami illumination, and empty cartridges of MAk 4 303 rifles.
The government enforced a dusk-to-dawn curfew a week ago and no reports of major attacks have been made since. Garsen MP Danson Mungatana yesterday demanded that GSU officers who hail from Coast region and deployed in Tana River Delta operation be recalled. Mungatana said the presence of such officers in areas affected by the violence could be interpreted negatively by the communities that have been attacking each other.
Mungatana yesterday in Parliament also demanded a statement from the Internal Security acting minister Yusuf Haji over reports that GSU officers attacked Ozi village on Monday morning and burned about 100 houses. The MP claimed the officers burned the houses as they were searching for weapons. “Can the minister tell the House who gave the command for razing of the homes and what disciplinary action will be taken against the officer,” said Mungatana.
Mungatana said if the minister believes the GSU officers were not behind the torching of the homes, he should explain to the House if the security officers have been infiltrated by outsiders who are targeting civilians. The MP said the minister should explain if the government will compensate families whose houses were torched.
Attorney General Githu Muigai undertook to ensure the statement is issued on Tuesday. He however said the government is in the process of establishing a judicial commission of inquiry that will probe the Tana Delta chaos noting that some of the issues Mungatana want addressed will be dealt with by the new team. “The process of setting up this commission is very advanced, and we expect latest Friday the commission is named,” said the AG.
Meanwhile, a group of residents from the Tana Delta region are planning to boycott the yet-to-start judicial inquiry proceedings on the Tana Delta if minister Haji is not fired and put under investigation. Speaking on behalf of the residents in Nairobi, Barasa Badhiribu, Michael Nkaduda, Said Buya, and Joel Ruhu said their community will not cooperate with the commission of inquiry if Haji remains in office.
Under the auspices of Tana River Community Leaders, the group said that “Haji is an interested party in the clashes therefore his continued stay in the Provincial Administration and Internal Security docket might influence the proceedings”. “Though we support the Cabinet decision to form a commission of inquiry into the clashes and the deployment of GSU to quell the violence, what we will not support is having interested parties like Haji oversee the whole process.
We are calling for his sacking as the acting minister and immediate opening of thorough investigations into what might be his role in the whole violence,” Badhiribu said. The group called for representation of all the Tana Delta communities in the inquiry commission. “We as well want investigations on why the violence recurs from time to time and gets worse during elections and the faces behind the clashes. Investigate how the perpetrators of the current violence were able to get the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) bullets, and have all the political aspirants scrutinised on what they might know,” Nkaduda said.
‘Ganja’ brothers quote Bible but are jailed for 10 years .
Wednesday, 19 September 2012 08:51 BY REUBEN GITHINJI
Two brothers charged with growing bhang were on Monday sentenced to a 10-year jail term by an Embu court.Domas Pour Man alias Mugo Munyoungo and his brother Absolom Dakaman alias Muchangi John pleaded guilty to the offense saying they had no regret because they were serving their messiah Haile Selassie.
The two denied their Christian and ethnic names and forced the prosecution to use their Rastafarian names.They told the court they cultivate “ganja” for spiritual purposes and that they were appointed by their Haile Selassie to do so. They tried to justify to Chief Magistrate Margaret Wachira that growing bhang is legal and they had a right to do so according to their religion.
“Ganja cultivation is a call to us and Rastafarians consider smoking the “Holy Herb” to being filled with the Holy Spirit. Ganja plantation and its use is also permitted in the Bible and to prove it, you should read 2nd Timothy chapter 4 verse 9,” said Pour Man amidst laughter from the audience.
However, the bible verse says ” do your best to come to me quickly” in the New International Version bible. The brothers said they would not deny they were cultivating bhang as that would be denying their calling. In her ruling, Wachira said it is illegal to cultivate bhang in Kenya even for religious purposes.She said the offense calls for a punitive and long sentences because the two seemed not to be sorry for their actions.
She gave them 14 days to appeal against the sentence. The two were charged with cultivating bhang in Makengi, Embu West district. They had earlier denied the offense and caused drama before Resident Magistrate Robinson Oigara in a previous hearing when they started speaking in Rastarian terminologies. “Jah man! We are the fighters of the poor,” Pour Man had said when the charges were read to them by Oigara.
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Recolonization of Africa is Real by Thabo Mbeki
There has issued especially, but not accidentally, from various circles in the UK, a call for a ‘new imperialism’ and therefore the ‘recolonisation’ of Africa! Because we considered this to be an obviously preposterous proposition, as a Continent we ignored this voice. However, the agenda for the ‘recolonisation of Africa’ is a present and actual part of the reality to which we must respond in the context of the uncertain global order which, inevitably, shapes and will continue to shape the future of our Continent.
The argument has been advanced that the process of globalization has created such interdependence among all nations that the “post-modern world” (Western countries) has a responsibility to ensure the integrity and proper functioning of the global system.
The British diplomat, Robert Cooper, in a 2002 article on “The Post-Modern State” said that one of the “main characteristics of the post-modern world” is achieving “security (that) is based on transparency, mutual openness, interdependence and mutual vulnerability.”
These ‘academic’ views have also been echoed by the media, and have therefore helped to prepare opinion in the ‘post-modern world’ in favour especially of the ‘recolonization’ of Africa. For instance, in a June 2, 2003 article, Bruce Anderson, columnist of The Independent (London), wrote:
“Africa is a beautiful continent, full of potential and attractive people who deserve so much more than the way in which they are forced to live, and die. Yet it is not clear that the continent can generate its own salvation. It may be necessary to devise a form of neo-imperialism, in which Britain, the U.S. and the other beneficent nations would recruit local leaders and give them guidance to move towards free markets, the rule of law and – ultimately – some viable local version of democracy, while removing them from office in the event of backsliding.”
On April 19, 2008 The Times (London) published an article by Matthew Parris entitled ‘The new scramble for Africa begins’ in which he said:
“Fifty years ago the decolonization of Africa began. The next half-century may see the continent recolonized. But the new imperialism will be less benign. Great powers aren’t interested in administering wild places any more, still less in settling them: just raping them. Black gangster governments sponsored by self-interested Asian or Western powers could become the central story in 21st-century African history.”
Another British commentator, Richard Gott, wrote in the New Statesman magazine published on 15 January 2001:
“There is a growing belief, not least within the ranks of latter-day new Labour missionaries, that appears to favour the reconquest of Africa. No one really suggests how this would come about, nor is there a “plan” available for discussion. Yet the implicit suggestion of recent reporting from Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Nigeria, sometimes echoed in London, is that imperial intervention might indeed be welcomed by peoples threatened with mayhem, anarchy and civil war…
“What Africa really needs, Maier, (in his book This House Has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis), seems to suggest, is the advice of a new generation of foreign missionaries, imbued with the new, secular religion of good governance and human rights. Men such as Maier himself and R W Johnson would fit the bill admirably. Other contemporary witnesses, the innumerable representatives of the non-governmental and humanitarian organizations that clog the airwaves and pollute the outside world’s coverage of African affairs with their endless one-sided accounts of tragedy and disaster, echo the same message.
“With the reporting and analysis of today’s Africa in the hands of such people, it is not surprising that public opinion is often confused and disarmed when governments embark on neo-colonial interventions. The new missionaries are much like the old ones, an advance guard preparing the way for military and economic conquest.”
What Richard Gott reported is the setting of a political agenda in the UK, which observation also applies to the rest of the ‘post-modern world’ which would help to create the conditions for Western governments to “embark on no-colonial interventions.”
The NATO bombardment of Libya is the ultimate outcome and practical expression of the theories advanced by intellectuals such as Robert Cooper and popularized through the Western media by commentators such as Bruce Anderson.
Led specifically by the ‘post-modern countries’ of France, the UK and the US, the UN Security Council authorised the current NATO military operation against Libya, which has absolutely nothing to do with helping the Libyan people peacefully to resolve the crisis afflicting their country. Rather, it has everything to do with regime change and the assertion of the ‘new kind of imperialism’ which Robert Cooper called for, which was echoed by Bruce Anderson when he wrote of the need for ‘a form of neo-imperialism.’
This means that we must understand the role of the proposition of “the Right to Protect”, which has been used to justify military interventions allegedly to protect civilians and advance human rights. Similarly we must put in its proper context the elevation of “international justice,” as represented by the ICC, even above the search for peace to save human lives.
All this fits in perfectly with ‘the new world order’ which Robert Cooper visualized when he wrote: “What is needed then is a new kind of imperialism, one acceptable to a world of human rights and cosmopolitan values. We can already discern its outline: an imperialism which, like all imperialism, aims to bring order and organisation but which rests today on the voluntary principle.”
This point is emphasized by the reality that many organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Crisis Group have challenged the arguments used to justify the NATO military action against Libya. In this regard, in an April 14, 2011 article in the Boston Globe newspaper, under the heading, “False pretense for war in Libya?” Alan K. Kuperman said:
“Evidence is now in that President Barack Obama grossly exaggerated the humanitarian threat to justify military action in Libya. The president claimed that intervention was necessary to prevent a “bloodbath’’ in Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city and last rebel stronghold…
“Obama insisted that prospects were grim without intervention… Thus, the president concluded, “preventing genocide’’ justified US military action.
“But intervention did not prevent genocide, because no such bloodbath was in the offing. To the contrary, by emboldening rebellion, US interference has prolonged Libya’s civil war and the resultant suffering of innocents…
“Nor did Khadafy ever threaten civilian massacre in Benghazi, as Obama alleged. The “no mercy’’ warning, of March 17, targeted rebels only, as reported by The New York Times, which noted that Libya’s leader promised amnesty for those “who throw their weapons away.’’ Khadafy even offered the rebels an escape route and open border to Egypt, to avoid a fight “to the bitter end.”
All this means that as Africans we must understand the true meaning of the NATO assault against Libya, authorized by the UN Security Council. It is neither an aberration nor a mistake. It constitutes a concrete expression of the systemic ‘neon-imperialist’ resolve to impose on Africa the “world in which the efficient and well governed export stability and liberty, and which is open for investment and growth,” for which Robert Cooper argued.
If the NATO military intervention in Libya succeeds, this will open the way for these countries to use the Libyan experience as a precedent which would encourage them to intervene everywhere else in Africa.
Thus whatever we do to ‘reposition Africa sustainably in a shifting and uncertain global order,’ we must take on board the present and concrete reality that the Western powers, presenting themselves as ‘the post-modern world,’ are resolved to ensure that they determine the destiny of Africa. They are convinced that they have to act to ensure the integrity of the ‘new world order’ of globalisation whose essence they have defined, and that as Africans, we are incapable of ensuring that our Continent conducts itself in a way that is consistent with the requirement to guarantee this integrity. The Western powers are acting even through military means, to ensure that Africa is governed according to their wishes.
One of the consequences of ‘the new world order’ is the transformation of the vitally important Office of the UN Secretary General into an institution which would systematically ‘(support) initiatives that coincide with American interests,’ rather than those which coincide with the interests of the world community of nations as a whole.
Two of our most urgent and current tasks are to take all necessary steps:
to mount a united offensive for the defense of the independence of the peoples of Africa and our right to determine our destiny; and,
to evolve a minimum programme to mobilize the billion Africans into united action to advance our shared interests.
An important part of our response must focus on the implementation of existing Continental decisions including those relating to such matters as democracy and human rights, peace and security and the prevention of genocide and other crimes against humanity.
The challenge we face is seriously to internalize the reality that nobody but ourselves can and should take responsibility for the renaissance of Africa towards which the billion Africans aspire. We have to act together to make our future and think together about what that future will be. When H.E. Ben Mkapa, former President of Tanzania, delivered The Thabo Mbeki Africa Day Lecture at the University of South Africa on Africa Day this year, he said:
“I consider these three freedoms – from food insecurity, from ignorance and from disease – as the fundamental and priority measure of the dignity of African Independence. More emphasis should be given to the war against them. The terrain to fight them must be of our own demarcation. The weapons and terms of their deployment must be of our own determination. The indices of success must be established by us. External support groups whether civil or State, must be selected by us; their deployment too must be monitored by us. The war is fundamentally our own and we can win if we set our sights objectively. This is the first challenge and imperative facing the second generation of African Leaders.”
I could not agree more!
President Mkapa went on to quote what the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere said when he addressed the South African Parliament on 16 October 1997:
“We have to depend upon ourselves, both at national level and at the collective level. Each of our countries will have to rely upon its own human resources and natural material resources for development. But that is not enough. The next area to look at is our collectivity, our working together. We all enhance our capacity to develop if we work together.”
As Africans we must mobilize ourselves to respond to the challenge starkly posed to us by ‘the new world order’ which demands that we should not merely proclaim our right to self-determination, but indeed act to determine our destiny!
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Why do they only colonize African countries ? Why not Asian Countries ? Why should African countries allow themselves to be colonized? How Silly and stupid ,weak these black African countries?
African people and their leaders admire colonialism and slavely.
If not so why do generation after generation is colonized?
Kenyan fighter jets have mistakenly targeted a pro-government militia group in southern part of the war-torn Somalia, Press TV reports.
A Somali military official told Press TV that several Kenyan warplanes launched attacks on Sunday and bombarded Ras Kamboni militias by mistake.
The raids claimed the lives of at least 51 Kenyan and Somali forces.
The Kenyan forces, currently under the command of African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), are dealing with specific al-Shabab targets, but security has also been stepped up on the Kenyan side of the border.
Kenya regularly carries out airstrikes in the Somali border regions.
Somalia has not had an effective central government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
The weak Western-backed transitional government in Mogadishu has been battling al-Shabab for the past five years and is propped up by a thousand strong African Union force from Uganda, Burundi, and Djibouti.
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Six civilians have been shot dead by a Kenyan soldier advancing towards the al-Shabab stronghold of Kismayo, the Kenyan army has confirmed.
The soldier has been detained pending an investigation, it said, noting the incident followed a militant attack.
Somali army spokesman Adan Mohamed Hirsi earlier told the BBC it had been “a deliberate killing”.
Meanwhile, the Hizbul Islam group has announced that it is leaving the al-Shabab militant organisation.
BBC Somalia analyst Mohamed Mohamed says it is a significant setback for al-Shabab, following recent military defeats.
Kenyan troops intervened in Somalia a year ago after a spate of cross-border attacks blamed
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