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Meet Fatuma Ahmed Kenya's first female Major General

By Betty Njeru | Jul. 14, 2018

 

Newly appointed Major General Fatuma Ahmed

Major General Fatuma Ahmed just keeps on making history. She first grabbed the headlines in August 2015 when she was promoted to a Brigadier, a post no woman had held in the male-dominated Kenyan military.

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