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Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa. With a population of more than 47.6 million in the 2019 census, [ 12 ] Kenya is the 28th-most-populous country in the world [ 7 ] and 7th most populous in Africa.
In January 2020, Business Daily Africa reported that the second loan, related to the Nairobi-Naivasha section of the Kenyan SGR, amounting to $1.482 billion, with a five-year grace period, fell due in January 2021. It attracts an interest rate of approximately 3.34 percent per annum and will be due in 30 semi-annual installments, beginning on ...
The amendment saw the addition of a section 2A to the constitution, making Kenya a single-party state under President Daniel arap Moi. Following protests in the late 1980s, section 2A was repealed in 1991, establishing the multi-party state, and the constitution had existed unmodified since then. [ 7 ]
Total population; c. 2 million Regions with significant populations Kenya 1,189,522 (2019) [1] Tanzania 800,000 [approximate] (2011) [2] Languages; Maa (ɔl Maa), Swahili (Kiswahili) and English
February 19-March 20 - Kenya participated the 2011 Cricket World Cup in, but lost all their six matches; February 20 - The 2010 FKL Cup winners Sofapaka beats league champions Ulinzi Stars 1-0 to retain the Kenya Supercup; March 6 - Kenya wins all categories at the 2011 African Cross Country Championships in Cape Town, South Africa.
Kenya has a strong tradition of oral literature, which continues today in several languages. [1] As a result of Kenya's history, including a period where it was a former British colony, Kenyan literature concurrently belongs to several bodies of writing, including that of the Commonwealth of Nations and of Africa as a whole. [1]
Under the leadership of renowned award-winning editor Faustine Ngila, the paper changed its website to taifaleo.nation.co.ke to gain more online visibility. It has since been Kenya's source of online Swahili content, publishing current affairs, politics, features and sports. The newspaper publishes daily pull outs from Monday to Sunday.
The aim of the project is to cut over-dependence on Kenya's main port of Mombasa as well as to open up Kenya's largely under-developed northern frontier through the creation of a second transport corridor. Key towns in the project are Lamu and Isiolo in Kenya, Juba in South Sudan and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. [1]