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Cuisine to gunshots: Inside feud tearing popular Nairobi restaurant Ranalo Foods apart

William Osewe, owner of the popular K'Osewe (Ranalo Foods) along Kimathi Street [Courtesy]

The aroma of fried tilapia, smoky athola, and sizzling matumbo might still fill the air at Nairobi's iconic Ranalo Foods, popularly known as K'Osewe. But behind the busy kitchen doors and clinking cutlery, a storm brews, fuelled by love gone sour, a near-fatal shooting, and a business war between former lovers.

It began with a bang, literally.

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