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An armed plain-clothes policeman keeps a close watch on some of the suspects caught in the police swoop in Mathare,  Nairobi, Kenya, 7 June 2007. Mathare is a poor neighbourhood with a population of  about 180,000 people.
Julius Mwelu/IRIN

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