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Website. www.unon.org. The United Nations Office at Nairobi ( UNON, Swahili: Ofisi ya Umoja wa Mataifa Nairobi) in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, is one of four major United Nations office sites [a] where numerous different UN agencies have a joint presence. Established in 1996, it is the UN's official headquarters in Africa.
Kibera ( Kinubi: Forest or Jungle [1]) is a division and neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya, 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) from the city centre. [2] Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, and the largest urban slum in Africa. [3] [4] [5] The 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census reports Kibera's population as 170,070, contrary to previous estimates ...
Companies headquartered in Nairobi. The following is a list of prominent companies and organizations with their main headquarters in Nairobi: East African Breweries. Equity Group Holdings Limited. Gulf African Bank. KCB Group Limited. Chem-labs Limited. Kenya Airports Authority. Cambrian Valuers Limited.
List of slums in Kenya. There are many slums in Kenya, for example in the cities of Nairobi and Mombasa. According to UN DESA ( United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs ), 55 per cent of Kenya's urban population were slum inhabitants in 2007. [1] In 2019, around two million inhabitants of Nairobi lived in informal settlements.
The embassy opened in central Nairobi on 2 March 1964, when the United States established diplomatic relations with Kenya. In 1998, the original embassy was the target of a terrorist attack , after which a new embassy building was constructed in Gigiri, a suburb of Nairobi, in 2003.
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]
The United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. [1] [2] It was established by Maurice Strong, its first director, after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in June 1972. Its mandate is to provide leadership ...
The United Nations Support Office for AMISOM (UNSOA) is a field support operation led by the United Nations Department of Field Support (DFS). [1] It is located in Mogadishu and Nairobi in East Africa, focused on support of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). UN Security Council Resolution 1863 provides UNSOA with a mandate to ...