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Four police officers have been arrested in Kenya after they were found drinking at a bar, in violation of a directive that ordered the closure of all bars in the central Kenyan county of Kirinyaga. BBC Monitoring
The county's governor, Anne Waiguru, imposed the order last Saturday, after more than 20 people in the county died from consuming alcohol laced with ethanol. The world through its media
"I have today ordered the closure of all bars in Kirinyaga to pave the way for fresh vetting, those bars that will be found to have been operating without license or had previous cases of selling unauthorised products will not be allowed to open again,” Ms Waiguru said on Saturday during a mass burial of some of the victims. Security forces in Somalia’s north-eastern Puntland region on Sunday arrested Jamal Osman, a reporter for British broadcaster Channel 4,
The officers were arrested on Sunday during a raid on the bar, after a local resident tipped authorities. on charges of spreading al-Shabab propaganda, private news site Puntland Post
The bar's owner was also detained, but several customers escaped arrest, privately-owned Citizen Digital news website reported. reported.
Mr Osman, who won a Rory Peck award in 2022 for a feature on
al-Shabab, was detained shortly after he arrived in regional capital
Garowe, the website said.
“Security sources have confirmed that journalist Jamal was taken
[from the airport] to Garowe town, where officials from the Puntland
intelligence agency were questioning him,” it added.
Channel 4 and Puntland authorities have not commented on the
reports.
Sources have indicated to the BBC that Mr Osman will be deported later on Monday.
Osman was briefly detained in Mogadishu in
2022 shortly after landing at the city’s airport from an undisclosed location.
He has reported for Channel 4 on al-Shabab, piracy in the Horn of
Africa and Somalia’s long-running instability since 2008.
His “Inside al-Shabab” report, which aired on Channel 4 in 2022, led to
the Somali government accusing him of promoting al-Shabab’s
ideologies.
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