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Godec's tenure ends as Trump picks Swahili speaking businessman to replace him

Outgoing US Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec during the commissioning of a water project at Emining integrated day and boarding primary school. [Photo by Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

President Donald Trump has picked a Kiswahili-speaking US senator to replace long-serving ambassador Robert Godec in Nairobi.

Senator Kyle McCarter of downstate Lebanon and his wife, Victoria, have lived in Kenya doing charity work with Each One Feed One International, which has an office in Mukothima, in Tharaka Nithi County.

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