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Shutdown of Changamwe Oil Refinery was telltale sign of collapsing economy in Coast

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Changamwe Oil Refinery. [Maarufu Mohamed, Standard]

The skies over Changamwe, Mombasa's hitherto industrial area, are clear. The fumes of smoke that bellowed out of the chimneys of public and private factories are no longer on the skyline.

Some private firms like the Apparel Export Processing Zones (EPZ) that employed hundreds of young men and women have reportedly relocated to other countries or just closed down.

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