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Conservation icon and former civil service boss Leakey dies at 77

Richard Leakey (left), former US secretary of State Rex Tillerson (centre) and Tourism CS Najib Balala at KWS headquarters, March 2018. [Beverlyne Musili, Standard]

One of the world’s most renown conservationists, Dr Richard Erskine Frere Leakey died yesterday aged of 77, just hours after his close friend and Kenya’s first indigenous Attorney General Charles Njonjo died and was cremated.

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