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Kenyan poor can now get insurance

NAIROBI, KENYA: The micro insurance concept is fairly new in Kenya but one man seeks to revolutionalise the sector.

Citadel Micro Insurance Agency under the stewardship of Elvis Ackel (pictured above) is pioneering this new product that bigger insurance companies have considered too risky. He wants to steer the market away from credit life insurance, which is most common in the Kenyan market today.

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