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Dominic Kirui

‘Very worrying’: Fear stalks Kenya as dozens of government critics abducted

A Kenyan activist holds a placard as protesters demonstrate against what they say is a wave of unexplained abductions of government critics in Kenya [File: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters]

Nairobi, Kenya – On the afternoon of August 19, brothers Jamil and Aslam Longton had just had lunch at home and were heading back to work at the cybercafe they run in Kitengela town, on the outskirts of Nairobi, when they noticed someone suspicious.

A woman was loitering outside their front gate, talking on her mobile phone, just as she had been doing in the same location when they first left for work that morning.

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