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The Kenyan Govt has announced closure of border with Somalia following recent kidnapping of British and French tourists

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Denmark has introduced a 'fat tax' the first in the world, slapped on manufactured food products with a certain amount of fat

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Correction: The woman referred to in that last tweet is French. #kidnap #France #Kenya

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Reports coming in of a German woman who's been kidnapped near Lamu. Comes weeks after that of Judith Tebutt. #Kenya

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Reports that gunmen on motor-bikes have shot dead an engineer from Water ministry outside his home in Nairobi's outskirts #Kenya

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Nobel Laureate Prof. Wangari Maathai died at the Nairobi Hospital last evening. #Kenya

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Patrick Makau breaks the World record by 22 seconds clocking 2:03:38 at #BerlinMarathon. Just awaiting official confirmation

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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' officially lifted; gays can now serve openly in military - NYT http://t.co/RhzOOAx3 via @breakingnews

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Terrible accident involving a Mombasa-bound bus and a trailer in Voi early this morning killing 11 people #Kenya

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Large blasts at Yemeni intelligence headquarters, police department in southern city of Aden via @Reuters

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Somalia's Al Shabaab has, in a statement, denied killing of David #Tebbutt and kidnapping of wife Judith.

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Reports of a possible countrywide fuel crisis following Monday's slum blaze hampering pipeline operations

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Reports that 7 people have die after drinking illicit brew in Kiamaina, Nyahururu. Tens admitted,some with lost eye-sight.

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RT @wambuindonga: #KNH in need of blood, water, sheets # heaters for #lungalungafire tragedy. Kindly RT

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Over 100 feared dead after fire broke out at a #Kenya Pipeline depot. Charred bodies strewn across disaster area

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RT @faithcnn: #Zanzibar state min. says 106 killed and 612 rescued, he says it seems ferry had more people than listed in manifest

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Former Ugenya MP Archbishop Stephen Ondieki died last evening, according to his daughter (via @capitalfm_kenya ) #kenya

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RT @AJELive: #Tanzania ship 'disaster': about 230 people rescued and 40 bodies recovered so far http://t.co/76D2q8h

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Breaking: An unknown number of people are feared dead after a ferry with 620 people on board capsized in Zanzibar

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The #Libya football team has won 1-0 against Mozambique in Africa qualifiers match in which the team was flying a new flag .