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Full house at Harambee Stars training camp as Miheso links up

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Former Gor Mahia captain Musa Mohammed and Clifton Miheso have completed the line-up of players who reported at the team’s training camp on Monday at Kasarani as preparations begin for the Africa Cup of Nations.

Kenya are returning for the AFCON for the first time in 15 years.

Other players who reported for camp on Monday included Masud Juma and Sofapaka stopper Dennis Odhiambo among others.

The team is gearing up for a three-week camp in France, a precursor to the Africa Cup of Nations, set to be held in Egypt. Stars are scheduled to jet out to Paris, on 31 May and have already been booked at the French Rugby Federation base, Marcoussis Cedex, where they will hold a 19-day residential camp before flying out to Cairo on 19 June 19.

Football Kenya Federation has also secured two friendly matches in France, against Madagascar on 7 June and the Gambia a week later.

Kenya will play her Group C AFCON matches at the 30 June Stadium in Cairo.

The first match will see Stars face Algeria on 23 June. Tanzania will be up next four days later then wind up the group stages with a match against Senegal on 1 July.

CHAN preparations

The Africa Nations Championships Qualifier against Burundi, in the meantime, is set to be played in August 2019.

The winner of the tie on aggregate will face off with either of Tanzania or Sudan in the second and final qualifying round of the tournament set to be held in Ethiopia in January 2020.

Kenya will be looking to make a maiden appearance at the 16-team tourney reserved exclusively for players actively featuring in their respective national championships.

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Milton Nyakundi is a veteran multimedia journalist with over 20 years of experience across broadcast, digital, and print media, who relocated to the United States in 2022 and is now the Senior International Correspondent for Kurunzi News based in Washington, DC, USA. He has previously worked with the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), among other high-profile roles with Kenya's first privately-owned media outlet - Kenya Television Network. His experience also include prominent roles as Media Consultant for Football Kenya Federation (FKF), and StarTimes Kenya. His career spans high‑stakes political reporting covering legislative and constitutional issues, elections, governance, and accountability across Kenya, Africa, and global arenas. He also boasts extensive sports journalism experience, covering local and international sports events, including leagues, tournaments and sports governance. He is well-known for his investigative depth, editorial leadership, and evidence-driven journalism that guides his consistent delivery of public‑interest storytelling across platforms.

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