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ICC upsets presidential candidates diaries

These last few weeks, everybody in the political class in Nairobi is glued to the TV screen watching the hearings of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague detailing the accusations levelled against six Kenyan dignitaries for their role [...]

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