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Goan Kenyan journalist Cyprian Fernandes worked at the Daily Nation and Sunday Nation from 1960 until he was forced to flee Kenya around 1973, owing to his investigative journalism probing irregularities which came too close to the government under Jomo Kenyatta, and his family was threatened.
The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 220 people were killed in nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in East African capital cities, one at the United States embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the other at the United States embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
He hosted The Larry Madowo Show [4] on Nation FM from August 2014 until June 2016 and wrote a weekly column in the Daily Nation every week named #FrontRow [5] from 5 August 2014 until 8 February 2018. In Kenya, he is best known for hosting a popular Friday night show called #TheTrend [6] on NTV Kenya [7] [8] from December 2012 until 30 June 2017.
Under President Mwai Kibaki, in the midst of a rise of hostile anti-LGBT rhetoric, a number of pro-LGBT organizations were established, with the largest group being the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya in 2006. On 26 June 2012, the United States embassy in Nairobi held what was believed to be the first ever LGBT pride event in Kenya. A public ...
Topped out in 2016, the concrete tower was the tallest building in Kenya and the third tallest in Africa until Britam Tower dethroned it in 2017. 4 GTC Hotel Tower: 143 m (469 ft) 35 2020 [[]] It is the second tallest building in the GTC complex. It will house a five star hotel operated by the Marriott organisation. 5 Times Tower: 140 m (460 ft) 38
The 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis was a violent political, economic, and humanitarian crisis in Kenya.The crisis erupted after incumbent President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the 2007 presidential election.
Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (born October 4, 1982) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district since 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party. [6]
The EAC collapsed in 1977 and was officially dissolved in 1984. Kenya's relations with Somalia deteriorated over the problem of Somalis in the North Eastern Province who tried to secede and were supported by Somalia. In 1968, however, Kenya and Somalia agreed to restore normal relations, and the Somali rebellion effectively ended. [52]