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Somalia President gets full honours on first state visit to Kenya

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo address journalists at State House in Nairobi on March 23,2017. PHOTO|EVANS HABIL

President Uhuru Kenyatta Thursday officially received his Somalia counterpart Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo on the latter's first state visit to Kenya, according him full honours including a 21-gun salute. 

The visiting Head of State inspected his first guard of honour at State House in Nairobi, mounted by a detachment of the Kenya Army while the national anthems of Kenya and Somalia were played by the military band. 

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