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Deputy President's mother fasts and prays ahead of key ICC decision

Sarah Cheruiyot Samoei, 73, is fasting and has tightened a traditional leather belt around her waist, wishing her son, Deputy President William Ruto, well.

Every time Ruto travels to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, she ties her stomach with the traditional Kalenjin leather belt known as leketiet.

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