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Indians in Kenya predominantly live in the major urban areas of Nairobi and Mombasa, with a minority living in rural areas. According to the World Economic Forum, the population of Indians in Kenya numbered around 100,000 in 2015. [2] In 2017, Indians were recognised by the Government of Kenya as the nation's 44th tribe.
The demography of Kenya is monitored by the Kenyan National Bureau of Statistics. Kenya is a multi-ethnic state in East Africa. Its total population was at 47,558,296 as of the 2019 census. [1] A national census was conducted in 1999, although the results were never released.
General elections were held in Kenya on 8 August 2017 to elect the President, members of the National Assembly and Senate. [2] They coincided with the 2017 Kenyan local elections which elected Governors and representatives in the devolved governments. The published results showed that incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta of the Jubilee Party had ...
The most significant conflict witnessed since Kenya's independence from Britain was the 2007–08 Kenyan crisis, a series of inter-ethnic clashes ignited by the 2007 disputed presidential elections. By the beginning of 2008, an estimated one third of the 2,200 member Indian community in Kisumu , which controlled most of the city's trade, had ...
The 2017 general elections saw Kenyatta defeat Odinga again for the presidency, with Kenyatta's Jubilee Party winning the most seats in the National Assembly and Senate. However, the presidential election results were annulled and a re-run held in October, which was won by Kenyatta after a boycott by Odinga.
Politics of Kenya. Presidential elections were held in Kenya on 26 October 2017 following the Supreme Court 's annulment of the results of the presidential vote in the August 2017 general elections. Incumbent president and Jubilee Party candidate Uhuru Kenyatta won 98.3% of the vote, defeating Orange Democratic Movement candidate Raila Odinga ...
Raila v IEBC. (2017) Raila Odinga & another v Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission & others [2017] KESC 31 (KLR) [1] was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of Kenya that nullified the presidential results of the 2017 General Elections in Kenya. The petition was brought forward by Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka, the National ...
The party was established at a meeting on 7 March 1914 as the East African Indian National Congress (EAINC), [3] and initially aimed to represent Indian interests across British East Africa, although it largely focused on Kenya. [4] It called for equality between Indians and Europeans, advocating the inclusion of Indians on the same roll as ...