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mombasa.go.ke. Mombasa ( / mɒmˈbæsə / mom-BASS-ə; also US: /- ˈbɑːsə / -BAH-sə) is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean. It was the first capital of British East Africa, before Nairobi was elevated to capital status in 1907. It now serves as the capital of Mombasa County.
From late 2011 to 2014, Kenya experienced an upsurge in violent terrorist attacks. Kenyan government officials asserted that many of the murders and blasts were carried out by al-Shabaab in retaliation for Operation Linda Nchi, a coordinated military mission between the Somalian military and Kenyan military that began in October 2011, when troops from Kenya crossed the border into the conflict ...
Heavy rains pounded the streets of Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, with some passengers evacuated from a flooded bus by holding on to a rope amid chest-high water. Others stood on top of the bus ...
Parents. Sheriff Nassir (father) Nassim Sheriff Nassir (mother) Abdullswamad Sheriff Nassir is a Kenyan politician. He is the governor of Mombasa County. He was elected on an ODM ticket under Azimio la Umoja, One Kenya Alliance in the 2022 General Election. He earlier served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mvita Constituency from 2012 to 2022).
The number of confirmed fatalities in Turkey rose to 17,406, health minister Fahrettin Koca said – putting it on a par with the earthquake in northwest Turkey which killed more than 17,000 ...
Mombasa Republic. The Mombasa Republic is a proposed state that would encompass the former Coast Province of Kenya. The Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) in the main separatist organisation to argue that Mombasa should secede from Kenya to become an independent state. [3] [4] They argued that secession would liberate the people of the coast ...
Turkey has further revised the death toll to 3,381, the country’s disaster management authority has said. This brings the total deaths in Turkey and Syria to over 4,800 with at least 1,444 ...
The independent Mombasa sultanate named Mvita (Swahili) or Manbasa (Arabic) was then established but was conquered by the Portuguese Empire during the 16th century. After this control alternated between the Portuguese and the Sultanate of Oman ,before the establishment of the British East Africa Protectorate in 1887.