Kenya’s police have summoned seven pro-government and opposition politicians for investigation over alleged “hate speech”, flagging growing tension more than a year before elections and after weeks of deadly protests.

Ethnic loyalties tend to trump policy matters in Kenyan politics. After a disputed election in December 2007, incitement by rival camps was blamed for stoking bloodletting between major ethnic groups that left 1,200 dead and hundred of thousands displaced.

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