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- ↑ "PREVIOUS AMBASSADORS/PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES". Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kenya to the United Nations. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- ↑ "President Kibaki makes new appointments". State House of Kenya. January 9, 2007. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- ↑ Ngobilo, Erick (10 June 2010). "Kenya: Nzoia Sugar in western province Gets New Chair Amid Protest By Farmers". Daily Nation . Retrieved 24 October 2012.
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