Nairobi — Kenya’s finance minister Henry Rotich pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to corruption charges over the award of two dam tenders, a day after his detention in an unprecedented move against a sitting minister in a country notorious for graft.

Rotich and other senior officials are accused of conspiring to defraud the public, among other charges...

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