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Freed Kenyan cleric refuses to leave jail
A Muslim cleric has asked a Kenyan court not to release him from prison despite being acquitted of terrorism charges.
A Muslim cleric has asked a Kenyan court not to release him from prison despite being acquitted of terrorism charges.
Plus: Large-scale protracted humanitarian crisis in the horn of Africa - as Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia are at risk of food insecurity.
And in South Africa, a spike in Covid cases as a fifth wave surges.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases say infections have jumped from 6,000 to almost 10,000 cases a day.
(Prison wardens outside G.K Prison Kamiti. Credit: Getty Images)
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