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Nairobi joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2010. Nairobi was founded in 1899 by colonial authorities in British East Africa, as a rail depot on the Uganda - Kenya Railway. It was favoured by the authorities as an ideal resting place due to its high elevation, temperate climate, and adequate water supply. [10]
The earliest account of Nairobi 's / naɪˈroʊbɪ / history dates back to 1899 when a railway depot was built in a brackish African swamp occupied by a pastoralist people, the Maasai, the sedentary Akamba people, as well as the agriculturalist Kikuyu people who were all displaced by the colonialists. The railway complex and the building around ...
As of December 2015, Sidika and other Kenyan social media personalities, including fashion stylist Silvia Njoki, musician and actress Ella Ciru, NGO ambassador and student Gertrude Murunga, architect Kiki Diang’a, fitness instructor Marjolein Blokland and socialite and singer Pendo, starred in the reality television series Nairobi Diaries which delves into the women's day-to-day lives.
August 21, 2024 at 3:59 AM. Nairobi — Five Kenyan police officers appeared in court Wednesday, suspected of helping a man accused of murdering and dismembering dozens of women escape from a ...
George Barasa was born in 1990 in Nairobi, Kenya, and raised in Bungoma, a town located in Bungoma County. As a gospel musician and singer & is well known for making an appearance in an LGBTIQ song Same Love Remix by Art Attack. [2] Barasa performed under the stage name Joji Baro.
Lulu Khadija Hassan is a Kenyan journalist, news anchor, [1] producer, and CEO of Jiffy Pictures. [2] She co-hosts the Nipashe Wikendi news bulletin on Citizen TV alongside Rashid Abdalla. [3] The Swahili-language bulletin airs on Saturday and Sunday. Lulu Hassan and Rashid Abdallah, one of Kenya's prominent media couples, founded Jiffy ...
September 19, Ruto met with Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO, Alice Albright to sign a US$60m program to help electrify busses that operate in Nairobi. [62] On the sidelines of the UNGA summit, president Ruto held bilateral talks with various foreign heads of states such as:
TV47 Kenya. TV47 is a television channel based in Kenya. It is owned by Cape Media Limited, an affiliate of Mount Kenya University. [1] It was launched in 2019 by Cape Media Limited, Eugene Anangwe as the Chief Executive Officer [2][3] and its main broadcast languages are English and Kiswahili. TV47 is a late entrant in the mass media in Kenya.