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  2. Lufthansa Flight 540 - Wikipedia

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    Lufthansa Flight 540 was a scheduled commercial flight for Lufthansa, serving the Frankfurt–Nairobi–Johannesburg route.. On 20 November 1974, the Boeing 747-130 that was operating as Flight 540 was carrying 157 people (140 passengers and 17 crew members) crashed and caught fire shortly after taking off from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi for the last leg of the flight ...

  3. 1982 Kenyan coup attempt - Wikipedia

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    Kenya portal. v. t. e. The 1982 Kenyan coup d'état attempt was a failed attempt to overthrow President Daniel arap Moi 's government. At 3 A.M. on Sunday, 1 August 1982, a group of soldiers from the Kenya Air Force took over Eastleigh Air Base just outside Nairobi, and by 4 A.M. the nearby Embakasi air base had also fallen.

  4. Nairobi DusitD2 complex attack - Wikipedia

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    2019 Nairobi DusitD2 complex attack. /  1.27000°S 36.80361°E  / -1.27000; 36.80361. The 2019 DusitD2 complex attack was a terrorist attack that occurred from 15 to 16 January 2019 in the Westlands area of Nairobi, Kenya, which left 22 civilians and all five terrorists dead. [7] [8] [9] [10]

  5. Kenya floods: What a deluge reveals about Nairobi's ... - AOL

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    April 29, 2024 at 11:41 PM. [Getty Images] Everything feels sodden in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, and beyond. It seems as if the rain has been falling without respite for six weeks, and the impact ...

  6. 1980 Nairobi hotel bombing - Wikipedia

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    Bombing. Deaths. 20 [1] [2] Injured. 87. Assailant. Qaddura Mohammed Abd Al-Hamid. On 31 December 1980, New Year's Eve, a bomb exploded in The Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. It partially destroyed the hotel, killing 20 people and wounding another 87.

  7. 2022 Kenyan general election - Wikipedia

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    General elections were held in Kenya on Tuesday, 9 August 2022. Voters elected the president, governors, senators, members of the National Assembly, and members of county assemblies. This was the third general election and the fourth presidential one since the promulgation of the 2010 constitution. Incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta was not ...

  8. Raila Odinga - Wikipedia

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    Raila Amolo Odinga (born 7 January 1945) is a Kenyan politician who served as the Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013. [1] He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Langata Constituency from 1992 to 2013 and has been the Leader of Opposition in Kenya since 2013. [2] [3] He is the leader of Azimio la Umoja–One Kenya Coalition Party .

  9. At least 7 injured in California gang-related shooting ... - AOL

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    At least seven people were injured in a Long Beach, California, shooting late Saturday, according to police. Officers with the Long Beach Police Department responded to the shooting in the area of ...