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  2. Kenya declares public holiday to mourn flood victims

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    EVELYNE MUSAMBI. May 8, 2024 at 7:00 AM. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s President William Ruto has declared Friday a public holiday to mourn the 238 people who have died due to ongoing flooding ...

  3. List of ongoing armed conflicts - Wikipedia

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    Wars (1,000–9,999 combat-related deaths in current or previous year) The 15 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year.

  4. Dozens killed in Kenya as weeks of heavy rain devastate region

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    Kenya is facing a worsening flood crisis due to the combined effects of El Niño and the ongoing March-May 2024 long rains,” IFRC Secretary General and CEO Jagan Chapagain said in a post on X ...

  5. Biden thanks Kenya's Ruto for sending police to Haiti and ...

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    President Joe Biden on Thursday expressed deep appreciation to Kenyan President William Ruto for the coming deployment of Kenyan police forces to help quell gang violence in Haiti and he defended ...

  6. Westgate shopping mall attack - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Demographics of Kenya - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Kenya flood toll rises to 181 as homes and roads are destroyed

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    NAIROBI (Reuters) -Floods and landslides across Kenya have killed 181 people since March, with hundreds of thousands forced to leave their homes, the government and Red Cross said on Wednesday, as ...

  9. Uhuru Kenyatta - Wikipedia

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    Uhuru Kenyatta was born on 26 October 1961, to the first president of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, and his fourth wife, Mama Ngina Kenyatta (née Muhoho). The second born in the family, he has two sisters, Christine (born 1953), Anna Nyokabi (born 1963) and a brother, Muhoho Kenyatta (born 1965). His family hails from the Kikuyu, a Bantu ethnic group.