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Kenyan traders suffer Sh8m loss as miraa flight is turned back

A miraa lobby has protested after a plane with 13.6 tons of miraa was turned back just before entering the Ethiopian airspace on its way to Hargeisa, Somaliland.

The chartered flight took off from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Saturday carrying Sh8 million worth of miraa to Somaliland.

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