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- 1 2 Center for Multiparty Democracy: Politics and Parliamentarians in Kenya 1944–2007 Archived October 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Two Kenyan government ministers die", Sapa-AFP (IOL), June 10, 2008.
- ↑ KBC, September 26, 2010: Kones and Laboso win seats [ permanent dead link ]