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Mombasa Civil groups back calls for national dialogue

From Left: Haki Africa Executive Director Khalid Hussein, Director Board of Governors Khalef Khalifa, Muslim for Human Rights Programmes Officer Francis Auma and Kenya Communication Support Centre Director Philis Mwema in Mombasa Thursday. [PHOTO: OMONDI ONYANGO/STANDARD]

MOMBASA COUNTY: Civil society groups in Mombasa have backed CORD’s calls for national dialogue and also demanded the withdrawal of Kenya’s military from Somalia.

The groups further raised claims of police turning Nyali, Bamburi and Makupa police stations into torture and extortion centres, as well as licensing people with ‘questionable character’ to own guns.

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