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Kenyans still question Uganda’s role in crisis

The Weekly Observer "As post-election chaos escalate in Kenya, reports indicate that regional countries might be sucked into the violence that has claimed more than 600 lives and affected economies of landlocked states that depend on Kenyan sea ports. Oil prices have skyrocketed in Uganda, Rwanda , Burundi and eastern Congo which depend on the Mombasa port, a Kenyan facility, for oil and trade supplies.
But a more worrying development is the suspected incursion into Kenya by Ugandan troops being deployed to help stem the poll-election crisis that has put Kenya on the brink of civil strife."

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