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Tough week as Kenyan universities face closure over strike

UASU national secretary Dr Costantine Wasonga and Laikipia University lecturers addressing journalists at Nakuru hotel during the Laikipia annual general meeting on 25 November 2017. [photo/ Harun Wathari]

More than 600,000 public university students may be sent home tomorrow as the strike action by lecturers begins to bite, with no solution in sight.

Yesterday, it emerged that university administrations had also moved to court to block their academic staff from going on strike.

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