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Garbage along Kenyatta Avenue in Nairobi's Central Business District (CBD).The county government has promised to bring back Nairobi’s lost glory. {David Njaaga, Standard}

NAIROBI, KENYA: City residents on Sunday woke up to a heap of garbage in what is regarded as an upmarket section of the central business district.

It was not clear where the garbage that had been dumped along Kenyatta Avenue near Standard Chartered Bank on Sunday morning came from and why it had been left there.