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Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki speaks at the crime scene in Shakahola, Kilifi County on April 25, 2023. [Kevin Macharia/Interior]
Amartya Sen's observation that no famine can take place with a free media took on new significance with the shocking discoveries in Kilifi county this week.
The Interior Cabinet Secretary's ban on active press reporting has muddied an otherwise decisive, albeit delayed response to the killing fields of Shakahola. Four days before World Press Freedoms Day on Wednesday, what is at stake?
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