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Meet Kenya's first female marine pilot

Meet our first female marine pilot
Elizabeth Marami takes a break from the steering wheel of a Kenya Ports Authority tugboat in the Likoni Channel. [Photo: Gideon Maundu/Standard]

Mombasa, Kenya: She is at the controls of a super tugboat at Berth 11 at the Mombasa port.

Elizabeth Marami, 25, is the envy of many and set to enter the history books as Kenya’s first woman marine pilot after successfully completing five years of intensive training at the prestigious marine training college in Alexandria, Egypt.

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