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Kenya's second liberation hero Salim Ahmed Bamahriz loses battle to diabetes

Mohamed Salim Bamahriz [right] chats with Mombasa politician, Khalid Salim Omar outside Standard Group office in Mombasa. Mohamed Salim is the brother of former Mombasa politician, Ahmed Salim Bamahriz who died last Saturday at Qassim Hospital in United Arabs Emirates.2nd October 2016. Photo Omondi Onyango/Standard

Former Mombasa politician Salim Ahmed Bamahriz, known for his role in the struggle for multi-party democracy in the early 1990s, is dead

Bamahriz, 74, died at the Al Qassimi Hospital in Sharja, United Arab Emirates, on Saturday after a long battle with diabetes, his family in Mombasa announced yesterday

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