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The aircraft involved in the accident, manufactured in 2006, was a six-year-old twin-engine turboprop Harbin Y-12 II registered as KAF132. [1] [2]The crew consisted of the pilot-in-command, Major David Macharia Njoroge, who was promoted to the rank of Major the year before, [9] [10] the co-pilot, Captain Joseph Njogu Muriithi, Senior Sergeant and Air Force flight engineer Joseph Muriithi and ...
In 2011, Kenya signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Road and Bridge Corporation to build the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). Financing for the US$3.6 billion project was finalised in May 2014, with the Exim Bank of China extending a loan for 90% of the project cost, and the remaining 10% coming from the Kenyan ...
February 18 – The statue of Dedan Kimathi was unveiled in Nairobi. The date coincided with the 50th anniversary of his execution by colonial administration. [7]February 20 – Simon Matheri Ikere, the most wanted criminal as declared by Kenya Police, is shot by the police after they surrounded him, having been located through tracing of his mobile phone.
The 2018 Kenya handshake was a political truce made on 9 March 2018 between Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga.The two had been the leaders of opposing political factions amidst widespread political violence and civil unrest; they had previously faced one another in the contested 2017 Kenyan general election. [1]
Business Daily Africa; Daily Nation; The EastAfrican; Kenya Gazette; Kenya Times; The Standard; The Star; Sport. ... marks the date of Kenya's establishment as a ...
Kenya imported 51,000 bbl (8,100 m 3) per day of refined oil products in 2011, according to KNBS. Kenya has a product pipeline system that transports petroleum products from Mombasa to inland areas. [31] [30] Kenya had one of the largest crude oil refineries in East Africa, the 90,000 bbl (14,000 m 3) per day Mombasa refinery. The refinery ...
The Party of National Unity (PNU) is a political party in Kenya originally founded as a political coalition. On 16 September 2007, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki announced the party's formation and declared that he would run as its presidential candidate in the December 2007 Kenyan elections. Following the conditions set by the Political Parties ...
William Ruto was declared the winner of the 2022 Kenyan general election [21] On 13 September 2022, William Ruto was sworn in as Kenya's fifth president. [ 22 ] In July 2024, after weeks of anti-government protests, president Ruto dissolved the Cabinet, firing every Cabinet secretary and the Attorney General, with the exception of Prime Cabinet ...