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    <text>Israel appoints Michael Lotem as the first Israeli ambassador to Somaliland, months after Israel officially recognised the breakaway region in Somalia. Lotem previously served as the Israeli ambassador to Kenya. </text>
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    <text>Kenyan president William Ruto announces the reopening of the country's Mandera border post with Somalia in April, ending a 15-year closure imposed in 2011 following attacks attributed to al-Shabaab, after earlier reopening plans were delayed due to renewed violence near the border. </text>
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    <text>Al-Shabaab militants kill a village chief and a teacher in Garissa County, Kenya, near the border with Somalia, prompting police to deploy additional security forces and launch a multi-agency manhunt for the attackers. </text>
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      <text>Four people are killed when Kenya Police open fire to crowd control tens of thousands of people mourning opposition leader and former prime minister Raila Odinga as his body arrives at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. </text>
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    <text>Four people are killed when police open fire to crowd control tens of thousands of people mourning opposition leader and former prime minister Raila Odinga, as his body arrives at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya. </text>
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      <text>At least seven Kenyan police officers injured after an al-Shabaab roadside bomb strikes their patrol truck on a highway east of Mandera in Kenya near the border with Somalia. </text>
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    <text>At least seven Kenyan police officers are injured after an al-Shabaab roadside bomb strikes their patrol truck on a highway east of Mandera in Kenya, near the border with Somalia. </text>
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      <text>Kenyan Police constable, PC James Mukhwana, is arrested over the death of blogger Albert Ojwang, which prompted protests and clashes with police this week. </text>
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      <text>Kenyan Police constable, PC James Mukhwana, is arrested over the death of blogger Albert Ojwang. </text>
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    <text>Kenyan police constable James Mukhwana is arrested over the death of blogger Albert Ojwang, which prompted protests and clashes with police this week. </text>
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      <text>Police fire tear gas at demonstrators gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to protest against the Kenya Police and its chief, Eliud Lagat, after blogger Albert Ojwang is confirmed to be killed in custody by the police force, demanding Lagat's resignation. </text>
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    <text>Police fire tear gas at demonstrators gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to protest against the police and its chief, Eliud Lagat, after blogger Albert Ojwang is confirmed to be killed in custody by the police force, demanding Lagat's resignation. </text>
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    <text>A Kenyan police officer deployed in Haiti as part of the Multinational Security Support Mission is killed in a suspected gang ambush, according to Haitian authorities. Kenya has confirmed that the officer is missing but has not yet verified his death. </text>
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    <text>A de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo cargo plane en route from Dhobley Airport in Lower Juba, Jubaland, to Aden Adde International Airport in Somalia’s capital city, Mogadishu, crashes in the Ceel Xabaaloow settlement in Lower Shabelle, South West State, killing all five Kenyan crew members on board. </text>
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    <text>Suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen abduct five government-appointed village chiefs in Kenya's Mandera County, who were en route to the border town of El Wak. The abducted chiefs were part of the preparation team for President William Ruto's visit to the region next week. </text>
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    <day>10</day>
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    <month>11</month>
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    <year>2026</year>
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    <name>Internazionale</name>
    <day>10</day>
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    <month>11</month>
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  <text>At least eight people, including two police reservists, are killed by suspected al-Shabaab militants in Mandera County, Kenya, near the border with Somalia. </text>
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