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Spotlight | Kenya
The coalition takes a new beating

The governing coalition formed between the PNU of President Mwai Kibaki and the ODM of Prime Minister Raila Odinga has entered into a new zone of strong turbulence. Two events of different origins are converging to rock this already unsteady [...]

Published on 10.04.2010 at 22:03 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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