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Obama: Alienating communities only breeds radicalisation

US President Barack Obama delivers his speech during a joint news conference with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta after their meeting at the State House in Nairobi. (Photo: Reuters)

US President Barack Obama has called on the government to review its counter-terrorism tactics by working with local communities to combat terrorism instead of alienating them.

Speaking at State House Nairobi during a joint press briefing with President Uhuru Kenyatta, Obama said that the US has come to realise through hard experience that collective punishment of communities in the fight against terrorism does not yield results.

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