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Fatuma Dullo, first woman Senator-elect from northern Kenya

Senator Fatuma Adan Dullo during a press conference in Nairobi PHOTO DAVID NJAAGA

Fatuma Dullo overcame many challenges to become the first woman to be elected senator in the conservative pastoral county.

After her husband died in a road crash in 2001, Mrs Dullo raised three children while working as an administrator in Lamu County.

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