French coach Sebastien Migne has been appointed as the new manager of Kenya national team on a three year deal.

Harambee Stars have been without a coach since the premature departure of Belgian Paul Put, just three months into job, on personal grounds.

“I am so happy to be here it is a new challenge for me, a new country and I am ready to start.  We have a big challenge ahead but I am ready for the job,” said Migne.

The 45-year-old was previously coach of the Congo Brazzaville national team before he resigned early last month.

He had also worked as coach of  Democratic Republic of Congo national U-20 football team where he became the first coach to qualify the team for the continental championships.

Migne then joined Congo as an assistant to Claude LeRoy  until November 2015 where together they took the Red Devils to the quarter-finals of that year’s Africa Cup of Nations which was their first appearance in fifteen years.

The 2017 CECAFA champions have mandated him to guide the team to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.

Kenya is in Group F of the qualifiers alongside Ghana, Ethiopia and Sierra Leone.