After Kenya blocked the uprooting and transportation of eight baobab trees to former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili's Shekvetili Dendrological Park, the Guardian’s East Africa global development correspondent Caroline Kimeu talks about the significance of the trees and how Ivanishvili’s contractor secured the license to uproot them.

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• Kenya blocks export of baobab trees to Georgia citing ‘irregularities’

Yerevan-based political analyst talks about the significance and the outcomes of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation’s meeting in Yerevan.

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• CSTO summit welcomed with protests in Yerevan

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