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Kenyan anti-doping programme halted by budget cuts

ADAK board chairman Daniel Makdwallo. [Stafford Ondego]

Kenyan athletics' battle against doping has suffered a serious blow which could result in it being banned from international competitions due to budget cuts that have halted all testing, its anti-doping agency said yesterday.

The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya says it was allocated only 20 million shillings ($5,400) to run day-to-day programmes for the financial year starting in July -- far below the expected 288 million shillings ($1,457,000).

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