Kenyatta, Odinga New Strategy to Save BBI From the Jaws of Adversaries

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Kenyatta, Odinga New Strategy to Save BBI From the Jaws of Adversaries

[Nation] Inundated with an avalanche of demands by politicians whose support is key to the success of their handshake project, President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga are opting for targeted meetings to enlist the support for the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), as signature collection kicks off in the coming week.

Source: allAfrica.com

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Kenya lies across the equator in east-central Africa, on the coast of the Indian Ocean. It is twice the size of Nevada. Kenya borders Somalia to the east, Ethiopia to the north, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. In the north, the land is arid; the southwest

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