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Nairobi Railway Museum. / 1.29306°S 36.82250°E / -1.29306; 36.82250. The Nairobi Railway Museum is a railway museum in Nairobi, Kenya, adjacent to Nairobi railway station. Containing exhibits from the defunct East African Railways, it was opened in 1971 by East African Railways and Harbours Corporation. It is operated by Kenya Railways.
Karnataka College, Dharwar. Occupation. Politician, journalist. Pio Gama Pinto (31 March 1927 – 24 February 1965) was a Kenyan journalist, politician and freedom fighter. He was a socialist leader who was key in Kenya's struggle for independence. He was assassinated in 1965, leading many to consider him independent Kenya's first political martyr.
Rongo, Kenya. Coordinates: 0.757627°S 34.599123°E. Rongo or Rongo town is a town in Migori County, Kenya .It attracts lots of investors due to its massive gold mineral reserves since decades. As of 2009, it had a total population of 82,066 with 12,355 in the urban core. [1]
In 1975 Nairobi was the host city of the 5th Assembly of the World Council of Churches. The U.S. embassy in the heart of Nairobi was bombed on 7 August 1998 by Al-Qaida, as one of a series of U.S. embassy bombings. Over two hundred civilians were killed in the embassy and another 213 persons in the surrounding area with more than 5,000 people ...
Westlands. Area. • Land. 37.6 sq mi (97.5 km 2) Elevation. 5,600 ft (1,700 m) Westlands is a mixed-use neighbourhood in Upper Parklands in Nairobi. Located 3.0 kilometres (2 mi) from Nairobi's central business district, it sits on the westerly areas of the larger Parklands area of Nairobi.
The tallest building in the city is the new 32- storey, 200 metres (660 ft) Britam Towers. The second-tallest building in the city is the 31- storey, 184 metres (604 ft) GTC Office Tower. [1] The most recent skyscrapers to be constructed are Prism Tower, Le'Mac and FCB Mirhab Tower. Nairobi's history of towers began with the IPS Building (1967 ...
Operation Anvil was a British military operation during the Mau Mau Uprising where British troops attempted to remove suspected Mau Mau from Nairobi and place them in Langata Camp or reserves. The operation began on 24 April 1954 [2] and took two weeks, at the end of which 20,000 Mau Mau suspects had been taken to Langata, and 30,000 more had ...
The US embassy in Nairobi was established the same day. [1] [2] The original embassy ( 1°17′20″S 36°49′37″E / 1.289017°S 36.826880°E / -1.289017; 36.826880 ( Original US Embassy, Nairobi (1964-1998) ) ) was located on the western corner of Moi Avenue and Haile Selassie Avenue in central