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Kenya faces worst human rights record UN report

Police rough up a protester in Kisumu. [File, Standard]

Fifteen years ago, Kenya unveiled a new Constitution hailed across the continent as a democratic milestone - a blueprint for healing a country scarred by political violence, inequality, and repression.

But that promise, the United Nations now warns, is quickly disintegrating, leaving Kenyans at the mercy of State brutality.

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