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Mombasa ‘new Dubai’ as car bazaars take over the city

Some of the imported vehicles at Canon Motors showroom in Mombasa. The number of car bazaars in the coastal city has gone up. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]

Mombasa is turning into a grand car bazaar city like Dubai, thanks to a growing class of middle income earners with an appetite for trendy brands of second hand imported vehicles mostly from Japan.

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