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Critics accuse Kenya of abandoning an age-old legal principle of "non-refoulement", which prohibits the forced return of people to countries where they may face persecution.

They are accused of ignoring environmental concerns and taking to heart an age-old saying: "There is no land in Ghana which doesn’t have gold, even in the top soil. Ghana is gold."

They had encountered an age-old phenomenon common in insular communities cut off from home.

“And it’s hateful, and grounded in some age-old stuff that we should not have the tolerance for.”

After Tuesday night, it looks like he’s returning to that age-old excuse.