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Personnel from the Kenya Defence Forces disaster response unit examine the scene of a building collapse in the Kasarani neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022.
July 2, 2024 at 3:54 AM. By Jefferson Kahinju and Dicksy O'Biero. NAIROBI/MOMBASA (Reuters) -Kenyan riot police fired tear gas at protesters in Nairobi on Tuesday and demonstrations erupted in ...
July 23, 2024 at 12:22 PM. By Edwin Waita. NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya's police fired tear gas to prevent scuffles between groups of protesters and government supporters in the capital Nairobi on ...
The work of the Kenya News Agency as a national news gathering operation began decades earlier with the Kenya Information Service (KIS) formed in 1939 to disseminate information on World War II. [3] In 1945, after the war, the service changed its name to the African Information Service (AIS) and it served as an information unit mainly for the ...
e. On 21 September 2013, four masked gunmen attacked the Westgate shopping mall, an upmarket mall in Nairobi, [1] Kenya. There are conflicting reports about the number killed in the attack, since part of the mall collapsed due to a fire that started during the siege. [2] The attack resulted in 71 total deaths, [3] including 62 civilians, five ...
The Daily Nation was started in the year 1958 as a Swahili weekly called Taifa by the Englishman Charles Hayes. It was bought in 1959 by the Aga Khan, and became a daily newspaper, Taifa Leo (Swahili for "Nation Today"), in January 1960. An English-language edition called Daily Nation was published on 3 October 1960, in a process organised by ...
July 18, 2024 at 6:42 AM. By Hereward Holland. NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya's government on Thursday ratcheted up its appeal for weeks of protests to stop as police banned demonstrations in the heart ...
GDP PPP (2023) 90 billion USD [6] Website. nairobi.go.ke. Nairobi (/ naɪˈroʊbi / ny-ROH-bee) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nairobi, which translates to 'place of cool waters', a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city.