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Constitutional reform in Kenya has been a major issue since Kenya gained independence. The highlights of the evolution of Kenya's constitution can be highlighted by the following events: 1963 – Kenya's 1963 independence constitution provides for a multi-party parliamentary system. Jomo Kenyatta is installed as Kenya's first Prime Minister.
The EastAfrican is a weekly newspaper published in Kenya since 7 November 1994 by the Nation Media Group, which also publishes Kenya's national Daily Nation. [1] The EastAfrican also circulates in the other countries of the African Great Lakes region, including Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. [2]
At the time it's only two products were the Daily Nation and Taifa Leo (a Kenyan Kiswahili newspaper, meaning Nation Today). In line with ongoing regional integration efforts, the NMG launched The East African in 1994, the most successful cross-border newspaper in East Africa, hitting the news-stands of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and now Rwanda.
Within Kenya, Kenyatta came to be regarded as the "Father of the Nation", [537] and was given the unofficial title of Mzee, a Swahili term meaning "grand old man". [538] From 1963 until his death, a cult of personality surrounded him in the country, [ 539 ] one which deliberately interlinked Kenyan nationalism with Kenyatta's own personality ...
Masai Giraffe in Nairobi National Park, 2020. The national park system of Kenya is maintained by the Kenya Wildlife Service.There are two main types of terrestrial protected areas in Kenya: national parks, and national reserves; there are also marine parks and marine reserves.
The Nation was established on July 6, 1865, at 130 Nassau Street ("Newspaper Row") in Manhattan.Its founding coincided with the closure of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, [6] also in 1865, after slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; a group of abolitionists, led by the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, desired to found a new ...
The East African Federation (Swahili: Shirikisho la Afrika Mashariki) is a proposed federal sovereign state consisting of the eight member states of East African Community in the African Great Lakes region – Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. [6]
It allowed the Cabinet Secretary of Foreign Affairs to waive documentation requirements for stateless persons who had resided in Kenya prior to 1963, as long as they met the other registration requirements. [15] In 2016, the Cabinet extended the application period for stateless and migrant persons for an additional three years. [100]