Police in Kenya have arrested a regional governor in connection with a series of gun attacks in the coastal town of Mpeketoni earlier this month that killed at least 60 people.
Issa Timamy, governor of Lamu County where the town is located, is due to appear in court on Thursday.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has blamed “local political networks” for the violence.
But the Somali Islamist group, al-Shabaab, said it was behind the attacks.
Mr Timamy belongs to the opposition Coalition of Reforms and Democracy (CORD), which is led by former PM Raila Odinga…
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