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Uhuru announces new plan to fight insecurity

Senior National Youth Service official has his shoes spruced up following wet weather by a junior before a parade at Madaraka Day celebrations at Nyayo stadium on 1st June 2015. [Photo/TABITHA OTWORI/STANDARD]

The Government is now changing tack in its war against terror, with President Uhuru Kenyatta acknowledging that defeating Al-Shabaab militants requires more than just military intervention.

Yesterday, the President said the Government had developed a major anti-radicalisation programme to counter extremism, reckoning that Kenya faced a new kind of enemy against whom conventional methods would not work.

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