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The original Uganda Railway was transformed into the East African Railways and Harbours Corporation (EAR&H) after World War I. The EAR&H managed the railways of Uganda, Kenya, and Tanganyika until the collapse of the East African Community in 1977. [1] KR then took over the Kenyan part of the EARC.
The 2018 East Africa Floods were a natural disaster in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Somalia, Djibouti, and Burundi affecting millions of people. They began when excessive rains began falling in March 2018 following a year of severe drought, leading to massive flooding, landslides, and the failure and overflow of several dams.
The East African Community created an institution called the East African Kiswahili Commission (EAKC) which began operations in 2015. The institution currently serves as the leading body for promoting the language in the East African region, as well as for coordinating its development and usage for regional integration and sustainable ...
A man from Labé, Guinea, speaking Pular and West African French. African French (French: français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of the French language spoken by an estimated 167 million people in Africa in 2023 or 51% of the French-speaking population of the world [6] [7] [8] spread across 34 countries and territories.
The EAR 59 class is a class of oil-fired 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge 4-8-2+2-8-4 Garratt-type articulated steam locomotives.The 34 members of the class were built by Beyer, Peacock and Company in Manchester, England, for the East African Railways (EAR).
The time zone in Ethiopia is East Africa Time (EAT) . [1] The IANA time zone database identifier is Africa/Addis_Ababa. [2]
An editorial in the East African Standard on 22 August argued that Europeans in Africa should not fight each other but instead collaborate to maintain the repression of the indigenous population. War was against the interest of the white colonialists because they were small in number, many of the European conquests were recent, unstable and ...
The East African Currency Board (EACB) was established in 1919 to supply and oversee the currency of British colonies in British East Africa. It was established after Britain took control of mainland Tanzania from Germany at the end of World War I, and originally oversaw the territories of Uganda , Kenya , and Tanzania (excluding Zanzibar ).