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How 'one term' chants stopped SGR train

Police use water canon to disperse protesters in Kitengela, on July 7, 2025. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

Fears that hundreds of youthful passengers from a festival in Diani, Kwale County, could turn chaotic led to the cancellation of the Sunday 10pm Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) train. 

Security sources confided in The Standard that the decision to cancel the Madaraka Express train service was arrived at by the National Security Council late on Sunday.

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