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Court martial in Mombasa jails four ex-solders for life

MOMBASA: A military tribunal at the Mtongwe naval base in Mombasa has sentenced four soldiers to life imprisonment after finding them guilty of deserting duty without due procedure.

The four are said to have left the Kenyan military to work for US security firms in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2007 and 2008.

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