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Somali president hospitalised

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation:: "Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed has been hospitalised in Nairobi 'in serious condition', a hospital official told AFP Tuesday. 'The Somali president has been admitted here. He is in serious condition,' said the official, who declined to be identified. A presidential aide confirmed that Yusuf was in a Nairobi hospital but played down the seriousness of his condition, insisting he would be travelling abroad shortly. 'There is no serious threat to the president's health,' the aide told AFP on condition of anonymity. The 73-year-old Somali president has suffered chronic health problems and survived a 2006 suicide car bomb attack that killed his brother and four of his bodyguards."

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