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Echoes: When government went to war with secessionists

Corporal Ibrahim Dahim instructing the Somali Doubas in aiming, May 1964 [Courtesy]

Combatants go to war to win.

This is a mantra proponents of secession in the Northern Frontier District (NFD) had in mind when they attempted to secede from Kenya.

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