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Muslims sue government on passport issue

    NAIROBI

    Muslims in the coastal Kenyan city of Mombasa have said they intend to sue the government for alleged discrimination by it in demanding the birth certificates of their grandparents before getting national passports. The forbears of most of the Muslims in the port city came from the Gulf of Arabia, and Muslim Kenyans from the coast held that the requirement for them to have their grandparents’ original birth certificates was unrealistic - not least because of poor public record-keeping, the BBC reported on Thursday. Several Muslims in Kenya have come under official scrutiny since the bombing of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in August 1998, it added.

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