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At the heart of Taveta town lies a dilapidated structure that could do with serious renovations. Its crumbling walls, worn-out roof and eroded floor bear the scars of a battle that pitted European superpowers but that sucked in a local population that knew little about the war.
Located less than three kilometres from the Kenya-Tanzania border, the old police station made history as the site where the first shot signalling the start of the East African campaign of the First World War was fired.
August 15, 1914, was another normal day at the police station as the security team awaited the first light to see what the day would bring. Nobody knew that by the end of the day, their nondescript outpost would catapult them to global repute.
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