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The country sent a 13 strong athlete delegation to London, composed of 11 men and 2 women. [1] It was originally scheduled to send 16 athletes. [2] Kenya's team for these Games included captain Henry Wanyoike, and athletes David Korir, Henry Kirwa, Abraham Tarbei, Jonah Chesum, Stanley Cheruiyot, Emmanuel Cheruiyot, Wilson Bii, Francis Thuo, Hanah Ng'endo, Henry Nzungi, Mary Nakhumicha, David ...
The Standard (Spanish: El Estandarte) was an Argentine newspaper published in Buenos Aires between 1861 and 1959 which claimed to be the first English daily in the Southern Hemisphere. It was initially published weekly in 1861 as "The Weekly Standard" and in December 1862 became the daily "The Standard and River Plate News". [1]
Kenya Times briefly overtook The Standard as the second most popular newspaper in Kenya (after Daily Nation), but its popularity waned after 1992's general elections, the first multi-party elections in Kenya since the abolition of one-party-system. [1] Kenya Times stopped publication in early June 2010 due to financial problems. [2]
The company which publishes the newspaper retained the name "Standard" and is still known as Tanzania Standard (Newspapers) Limited. [1] Daily News has a Kiswahili sister paper Habari Leo, which was established in 2007. It is in tabloid form, unlike the Daily News which together with the Sunday News are all broadsheets. The papers are produced ...
The Battle of El Adde took place on 15 January 2016.Al-Shabaab militants launched an attack on a Kenyan-run AMISOM army base in the town of El Adde, Gedo, Somalia.It remains the deadliest attack on the African Union Mission to Somalia and is the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) largest defeat since independence in 1963.
Karen Hospital was co-founded by a Kenyan medical couple one of whom is Dr. Betty Gikonyo, a pediatric cardiologist, who is one of the 13 female doctors (8 African and 5 Caucasians), to graduate with the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) from the Nairobi University School of Medicine in 1975. [5]
Nation Media Group (NMG), formerly known as East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, is an East African media group based in Kenya and listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange. It is owned by Aga Khan IV .
He was Kenya’s first private medical practitioner and the first to diagnose bubonic plague in this country. [3] Curiously, he used to ride a zebra he tamed to attend his patients' house calls. [4] Ribeiro is a recipient of the Order of British Empire for the extent of his benevolent works in Kenya. [5]