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Nairobi joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2010. Nairobi was founded in 1899 by colonial authorities in British East Africa, as a rail depot on the Uganda - Kenya Railway. It was favoured by the authorities as an ideal resting place due to its high elevation, temperate climate, and adequate water supply. [10]
U.S. embassy in Nairobi after the explosion, with the collapsed Ufundi Building. 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 ...
George Barasa was born in 1990 in Nairobi, Kenya, and raised in Bungoma, a town located in Bungoma County. As a gospel musician and singer & is well known for making an appearance in an LGBTIQ song Same Love Remix by Art Attack. [2] Barasa performed under the stage name Joji Baro.
B2 negative (2020) (Moodys Investor Service) [1] Website. ke.kcbgroup.com. KCB Bank Kenya Limited is a financial services provider headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. It is licensed as a commercial bank, by the Central Bank of Kenya, the national banking regulator. [3] The bank has also been running Agency banking model.
The earliest account of Nairobi 's / naɪˈroʊbɪ / history dates back to 1899 when a railway depot was built in a brackish African swamp occupied by a pastoralist people, the Maasai, the sedentary Akamba people, as well as the agriculturalist Kikuyu people who were all displaced by the colonialists. The railway complex and the building around ...
Malik Obama. Abon'go Malik " Roy " Obama (born March 1958) is a Kenyan-American businessman and former political candidate known for being the half-brother of 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, and the eldest son of economist Barack Obama Sr.
Joshua Cheruiyot Kirui. Joshua Cheruiyot Kirui (c. 1984 – 23 May 2024) was a Kenyan mountaineer and banker. [1] He was the second Kenyan to attempt summiting Mount Everest [2] after James Kagambi who became the first Kenyan to reach Everest's peak at the age of 62 in 2022. [3] Kirui climbed Manaslu, the eighth highest mountain in the world ...
As of December 2015, Sidika and other Kenyan social media personalities, including fashion stylist Silvia Njoki, musician and actress Ella Ciru, NGO ambassador and student Gertrude Murunga, architect Kiki Diang’a, fitness instructor Marjolein Blokland and socialite and singer Pendo, starred in the reality television series Nairobi Diaries which delves into the women's day-to-day lives.