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Safaricom restores network after Al Shabaab attack

NAIROBI, KENYA: Safaricom network has resumed in Hulugho Sub County of Garissa, five months after Al Shabaab militants brought down the firm's telecommunication mast in the area bordering Somalia.

The militants shot down the mast with a rocket knocking out cellphone communication in this remote and impoverished area.

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