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Uganda now says it has no record of Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto aborted visit to the country. Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Henry Okello Oryem, in a press briefing in Kampala, said he was not informed of Ruto’s planned trip nor was there a r...
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