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He established Kenya's first newspaper now known as The Standard in 1901 and was the first non-white to be elected to the Legislative Council in 1910. Such was his success that in 1904 it was estimated that he owned half of Mombasa and the greater part of Nairobi.
The presidency of Daniel arap Moi began on 22 August 1978, when Daniel arap Moi was sworn in as the 2nd President of Kenya, and ended on 30 December 2002. Moi, a KANU party member, took office following the death of the then president Jomo Kenyatta on the same day. He was sworn as interim president for 90 days during which the country was to ...
Longhorn Kenya Limited: Publishing: NMG: Nation Media Group: Newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations. Crosslisted on the Uganda Securities Exchange, the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange and the Rwanda Stock Exchange: SCAN: Scangroup: advertising and marketing: SGL: Standard Group Limited: Newspapers, magazine, Radio station, TV ...
v. t. e. On 21 September 2013, four masked gunmen attacked the Westgate shopping mall, an upmarket mall in Nairobi, [4] 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. [5] The attack resulted in 71 total deaths, [6] including 62 civilians ...
e. Corruption in the government of Kenya has a history which spans the era of the founding president Jomo Kenyatta, to Daniel arap Moi 's KANU, Mwai Kibaki 's PNU governments. President Uhuru Kenyatta 's Jubilee Party government, and the current William Ruto 's Kenya Kwanza administration has also been riddled with massive cases of graft.
The Kenya Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is a partially finished railway system connecting Kenya's cities. Once completed, it will link the country to the neighboring country of Uganda, and through Uganda, to South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi. There are also plans to link to Addis Ababa, in neighboring ...
The Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway, completed in 2017, was built as the first phase of the Kenya Standard Gauge Railway. It is a standard-gauge railway (SGR) in Kenya that connects the large Indian Ocean city of Mombasa with Nairobi, the country's capital and largest city. This SGR runs parallel to the narrow-gauge Uganda Railway that ...
Nairobi Parsee Zoroastrian Anjuman Religious and Charitable Funds established. 1906 Jamia Mosque construction started. Royal Nairobi Golf Club founded. 1907 - British Government House built. 1909 - East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society established. 1910 East African Standard newspaper headquartered in Nairobi.