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Kenya Police Officer on traffic duties in Nairobi City. The Kenya Police Service is a national body in charge of law enforcement in Kenya. It is subordinate to National Police Service which is headed by Inspector General of Police who exercises independent command over the Service. Kenya Police is headed by Deputy Inspector General.
Eastleigh was founded in 1921. At this time, it was formally called Nairobi East Township. While the colonial government originally tried to segregate citizens by race and ethnicity, failures at doing so in the Eastleigh neighbourhood more or less stopped the practice under colonial rule, so class became the general segregating factor afterwards. [4]
The cathedral is the headquarters of the Archdiocese of Nairobi. [6] The current archbishop is Philip Anyolo who was made a archbishop of Nairobi in 2021. [8] The Archdiocese of Nairobi contains an estimated population of 4 million people of which 1.6 million are thought to be Catholic.
Islam is the religion of 10.91 percent of the population. [1] Most Muslims in Kenya are Sunni, mostly of the Shafii rite. Approximately 8% are non-denominational Muslims, [16] 7% identify themselves as Shia and about 4% identify themselves as Ahmadi Muslims, [17] as well as a small proportion of Ibadism practitioners. [18]
A Maasai man. The former swamp land occupied by the city now was once inhabited by a pastoralist people, the Maasai, the sedentary Akamba people, as well as the agriculturalist Kikuyu people, under the British East Africa protectorate when the British decided to build a railroad from Mombasa to Kisumu on the edge of Lake Victoria in order to open East Africa and make it accessible for trade ...
While speaking on the deadly incident, Ruto said, "We shall provide a full, effective, and expeditious response to today’s treasonous events." He told a press briefing in Nairobi that the demonstrations were "hijacked by dangerous people." [51] [7]
TV47 is a late entrant in the mass media in Kenya. There are more than 50 television stations in Kenya. [4] These stations include Citizen TV, by Royal Media Services of Samuel Kamau Macharia, Kenya Television Network by The Standard (Kenya), NTV (Kenyan TV channel) by Nation Media Group, and K24 TV by Media Max Limited.
The five-storey mall opened in 2007 and included 350,000 square feet (33,000 m 2) of retail space and housed more than 90 stores. [2] Nakumatt and Planet Media Cinemas anchored the mall.