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Police arrest Ansar followers

    NAIROBI

    The police arrested several members of the Ansar sect on Tuesday for illegal possession of arms and membership of a banned organisation, AFP reported party officials as saying. The sect, the religious wing of the proscribed Ummah party, had been banned from holding celebrations marking the independence of Sudan and the 19th century victory over the British at Khartoum by the Ansar’s founder, Muhammed Ahmad al-Mahdi.

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