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Crude awakening: Why Kenya can’t handle sea oil spills

Volunteers, residents and soldiers remove crude oil that spilled from oil tanker in Korea in 2007. Photo/REUTERS

Rarely are the high seas a source of news save for what has lately become a frequent catalogue of attacks on ships by marauding fortune-seeking pirates off the Coast of Somalia.

So when the MT “Voge Trust”, an oil tanker carrying 35,000 tonnes of diesel careened dizzily as it entered the port of Mombasa at the Likoni Channel, it hardly attracted the national attention it deserved.

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