Kenyan health activist moves from swamps to politics
By Reuters
30 July 2022 |
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Umra Omar runs the Safari Doctors charity in Kenya's Lamu, delivering free medicine to remote communities. But now she's decided to try to change the health system by standing as the country's governor.
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