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Relief as Kenya avoids doping ban from World Athletics

CS for Youth, Affairs, Sports and the Arts Ababu Namwamba address the media while flanked with AK officials at Kenya National Library head offices on December 1, 2022 after Kenya escaped athletics ban over rising cases of doping in the country.( Kelly Ayodi, Standard)

Kenya has avoided been sanction by World Athletics for the increasing number of doping cases in the country.

This is after the government moved to increase anti-doping funding with an allocation of Sh619 million annually for the next five years.
World Athletics President Seb Coe said that the funding will help increase the number of tests, investigations besides bolstering the already

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