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How Kenya and China tore diplomatic ties apart

By JAMES MWANGI

Kenya and China are today tight allies, an affair that is rubbing the West the wrong way. However, 46 years ago, the two countries were rocked in a nasty diplomatic row that saw each repatriate the other’s envoys. 

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