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Jubilee. President after election. Election results annulled. Uhuru Kenyatta remains president. General elections were held in Kenya on 8 August 2017 to elect the President, members of the National Assembly and Senate. [2] They coincided with the 2017 Kenyan local elections which elected Governors and representatives in the devolved governments.
The 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis was a violent political, economic, and humanitarian crisis that erupted in Kenya after former President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the presidential election held on December 27, 2007. Supporters of Kibaki's main opponent in that election, Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement, alleged electoral ...
The Nairobi–Malaba Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is the project of standard-gauge railway that should connect Kenya 's capital city of Nairobi to Malaba, at the international border with Uganda. [2] The Nairobi–Malaba SGR was to connect other standard gauge railways in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and eastern Democratic Republic of ...
CEO. Products. petroleum, oil, gas. Website. https://nationaloil.co.ke/. The National Oil Corporation of Kenya ( NOCK ), is a state corporation of Kenya founded by Act of Parliament in 1981, with a mandate of participating in all aspects of the Kenyan petroleum industry. [2] The company was incorporated in 1981 [2] and began operations in 1984.
Indians in Kenya predominantly live in the major urban areas of Nairobi and Mombasa, with a minority living in rural areas. According to the World Economic Forum, the population of Indians in Kenya numbered around 100,000 in 2015. [2] In 2017, Indians were recognised by the Government of Kenya as the nation's 44th tribe.
The World Conference on Women, 1985 or the Third World Conference on Women took place between 15 and 26 July 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya, as the end-of-decade assessment of progress and failure in implementing the goals established by the World Plan of Action from the 1975 inaugural conference on women as modified by the World Programme of Action of the second conference.
July 8–13 - The 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Kenya finished third in the medals table by winning four gold medals, five silver and three bronze. Kenyan gold medalists were Josphat Bett (10,000m men), Jonathan Muia (3,000m SC men), Mercy Cherono (3,000m women) and Christine Kambua (3,000m SC women).
The highway was constructed between 2009, [6] and 2014, [7] as a two-lane, single carriageway road. The work was performed by China Road and Bridge Corporation. Work on this road together with the 32 kilometres (20 mi) Nairobi Eastern Bypass Highway, was budgeted at KSh8.5 billion (US$85 million). The funding for both these roads was as ...