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Coffee smuggling still goes on along the Lwakhakha border. [Courtesy]
Barely two kilometres away from Chepkube Market, intense activity along the Kenya-Uganda border is discernible.
Today, Chepkube is a nondescript backwater town. However, it evokes memories of the coffee smuggling business in the mid-1970s through to the late 1980s.
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