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Kenya’s first all-female SWAT team hits Nairobi streets

The all-female team is the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa (Photo: Standard/Cyrus Ombati)

A team of heavily armed all-female police unit wearing balaclavas is on the prowl on the streets of Nairobi.

The new Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team - the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa - patrols on foot and sometimes in all-terrain vehicles.

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