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Nairobi, Kenya - As the government moves ahead with an expensive project to build a controversial security fence on sections of Kenya’s 700 km border with Somalia to keep out terrorists, it has a bigger headache.
Thousands of youths recruited six years ago to fight alongside Somali troops are now battle- hardened men in the early 30s. Quite a number have returned home bitter after the government failed to pay the Sh 255,000 ($3000) per month it promised them when they accepted the offer in 2009.
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