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Kenyan politician and diplomat

Chirau Ali Mwakwere (born June 15, 1945, in Kwale, Kenya) is a Kenyan politician and diplomat.

He served as the Foreign Minister of Kenya from June 2004 to December 2005, and then became transport minister in December 2005, when serious problems within the National Rainbow Coalition caused a cabinet reshuffle. As a young man he was well-educated and joined government service in 1967, serving as an ambassador to several countries and also in several domestic positions, including education.

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He was a member of the Kenya African National Union until 2002, rising to the rank of deputy leader, but left to join the new opposition National Rainbow Coalition which won the 2002 elections. He is a Muslim and enjoys playing golf.

Mwakwere remained Minister for Transport in the Cabinet named by then President Mwai Kibaki on January 8, 2008, following the controversial December 2007 presidential election,^[1] and after Kibaki and