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Muliro Telewa worked alongside some of Kenya's most respected journalists at BBC. [File]

Veteran journalist Muliro Telewa has died at the age of 68 while receiving treatment at a hospital in Nakuru.

According to his family, Telewa had been living with kidney failure for some time, although the condition had been manageable.

His sister said he developed a severe cough on Sunday evening and was rushed to hospital, where he later died on Monday morning.