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Kenya lifts ban on live broadcasts: govt spokesman

NAIROBI
Mon Feb 4, 2008 11:31am EST

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's government on Monday lifted a ban on live broadcasting imposed after President Mwai Kibaki's disputed December 27 re-election in what it said at the time was an effort to prevent the incitement of violence.

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"The ban has been lifted," government spokesman Alfred Mutua told Reuters. Rights groups and the opposition had criticized the ban as an attack on free speech.

(Reporting by Bryson Hull, Editing by Nick Tattersall)



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