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In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  Jomo Kenyatta - MSN Encarta
Kenya was established as a republic in December 1964, and Kenyatta was elected Kenya’s first president the same month.
The 1969 assassination of cabinet minister Tom Mboya—a Luo ally of Kenyatta’s—by a Kikuyu led to months of tension and violence between the Luo and the Kikuyu.
For the remainder of his presidency, Kenya was effectively a one-party state, and Kenyatta made use of detention, appeals to ethnic loyalties, and careful appointment of government jobs to maintain his commanding position in Kenya’s political system.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552618/Kenyatta_Jomo.html   (1088 words)

  
 Explosion in Somalia Rocks Prime Minister's Speech
Prime Minister Gedi was not hurt, but his security team immediately hustled the Somali leader out of the stadium.
The political rally was to have been the highlight of Prime Minister's Gedi's first visit to Mogadishu since he was appointed to the post last year.
Immediate neighbors Ethiopia, Kenya, and Djibouti are members of IGAD and Somalis say they fear that troops from those countries could harbor geopolitical interests that could undermine their neutrality.
www.voanews.com /english/archive/2005-05/2005-05-03-voa15.cfm?textmode=1   (577 words)

  
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As of 1993, Kenya is comprised of seven non-autonomous provinces and the Nairobi capital territory, although the country of Kenya remains a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
In 1989, the population of Kenya was 23,727,000.
Therefore, in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and many other countries in Africa south of the Sahara, it is inherently contradictory and ridiculous for a woman to report that she was raped by her friend or boyfriend who invited her for a date.
www.ojp.usdoj.gov /bjs/pub/ascii/wfbcjken.txt   (4887 words)

  
  List of state leaders in 1964 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prime Minister - Milton Obote, Prime Minister of Uganda (1962–1971)
Prime Minister - Théodore Lefèvre, Prime Minister of Belgium (1961–1965)
Prime Minister - Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (1963–1965)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_state_leaders_in_1964   (1056 words)

  
 List of state leaders in 1963 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prime Minister - Milton Obote, Prime Minister of Uganda (1962-1971)
Prime Minister - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (1946-1969)
Abdul Latif Dayfallah, Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic (1963)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_state_leaders_in_1963   (754 words)

  
 Kenya: Page-2
Kenya is the world's third largest exporter of tea, which, together with coffee and horticultural products, contributes about 50 percent of total merchandize exports.
Kenya was a British colony and protectorate from the 1890s until independence in December 1963.
Kenya, formerly known as British East Africa, was declared a British protectorate in 1895,to secure a route to Uganda.
us-africa.tripod.com /kenya2.html   (2538 words)

  
 Post-Independence Low Intensity Conflict In Kenya
Recommendation: The Kenya government and the Somalia Government should be made to resolve the issue by first and foremost, Somalia renouncing her territorial claims of NFD, and by signing a treaty in the United Nations ratifying the agreement.
Until 1963, when Kenya attained her independence, the North Eastern region had been isolated from the rest of Kenya by the British colonialist laws passed in 1902 and in 1934 which restricted the movement of all persons entering or leaving the district.
Kenya attained her independence on 12 December, 1963 with the bilateral understanding that the matter would be resolved amicably between the affected parties.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1992/BHK.htm   (7453 words)

  
 A short history of Kenya
Present-day Kenya is inhabited since around 1000 by Bantu tribes, followed since 1500 by the Masai and the Luo.
Arab traders begin frequenting the Kenya coast around the first century A.D. Kenya's proximity to the Arabian Peninsula invite colonization, and Arab and Persian settlements sproute along the coast by the eighth century.
From October 1952 to December 1959, Kenya was under a state of emergency arising from the "Mau Mau" rebellion against British colonial rule.
www.electionworld.org /history/kenya.htm   (506 words)

  
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Kenya Airways Flight 431 carried 179 people and 10 survivors were pulled from the water.
Replacements were chosen by members of the "Mount Kenya Mafia," a group of ministers and mates from the president's Kikuyu tribe.
2004 Jan 8, In Kenya a new agreement, between the Ministry of Education and the country's largest and oldest orphanage for HIV-positive children, allowed a group of children infected with the virus that causes AIDS to attend public schools.
www.ogiek.org /faq/history-kenya.htm   (5497 words)

  
 Somali prime minister leaves Kenya - Boston.com - Africa - News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Somalia's prime minister, lawmakers and members of his cabinet returned home Saturday and began the work of governing after spending months of exile in neighboring Kenya because Somalia was considered too unsafe.
NAIROBI, Kenya --Somalia's prime minister, lawmakers and members of his cabinet returned home Saturday and began the work of governing after spending months of exile in neighboring Kenya because Somalia was considered too unsafe.
Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi arrived in the southern Somali town of Jowhar, about 60 miles northwest of the capital Mogadishu, to relocate a seven-month old government from the Kenyan capital, said Yusuf Ismail, a government spokesman.
www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2005/06/18/somali_prime_minister_leaves_kenya   (300 words)

  
 Kenya Daily - latest news stories and top headlines from Kenya.
The failure by the world’s richest countries to grant Kenya debt relief may turn out to be a blessing in disgu...
Kenya must fight graft and be committed to good political and economic governance to win international suppo...
A section of Kenya’s MPs is taking comfort in the assumption that in the war against terrorism, the country’s...
archive.wn.com /2005/06/19/1400/kenya   (476 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT: Bangladesh pips Kenya in thrilling final for ICC trophy
Bangladesh, on a roll, defeated Kenya by two wickets off the last ball of a thrilling final to lift the ICC Trophy and spark unprecedented celebrations in their country.
Facing Kenya's total of 241 which was largely inspired by a brilliant innings of 147 Steve Tikolo, Bangladesh was set a revised target of 166 in 25 overs thanks to morning rain and a delayed start.
Kenya, it will be recalled, had shocked the West Indies in the league round of the 1996 World Cup in India.
www.rediff.com /sports/apr/14d.htm   (550 words)

  
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He led the party to victory in the pre-independence elections of May 1963 and was named prime minister of Kenya in June.
Kenya was established as a republic in December 1964, and Kenyatta was elected Kenya's first president the same month.
For the remainder of his presidency, Kenya was effectively a one-party state, and Kenyatta made use of detention, appeals to ethnic loyalties, and careful appointment of government jobs to maintain his commanding position in Kenya's political system.
www.lsu.edu /student_organizations/aso/kenyatta.htm   (1017 words)

  
 Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Action (What's up around the Prime Minister)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mwai Kibaki, the President of the Republic of Kenya, at the Prime Minister's Official Residence.
At the meeting, Prime Minister Koizumi welcomed the visit to Japan by the president of Kenya for the first time in 14 years and expressed his gratitude for Kenya's participation in and cooperation to the TICAD Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference (TICAD-AATIC).
Furthermore, Prime Minister Koizumi said, "Japan positively evaluates the various domestic reforms advanced in Kenya since President Kibaki's inauguration and intends to continue its cooperation on these efforts for reform." The leaders confirmed that the two countries will further enhance their friendly cooperative relations to a broader range of areas and levels.
www.kantei.go.jp /foreign/koizumiphoto/2004/11/02kenya_e.html   (171 words)

  
 Kenya Democracy Project: To Prime Minister TB on the Eve of the Kenyan Budget Speech
Prime Minister, the Kenyan government has used odious and hostile anti-worker state generated propaganda, strong arm tactics and other underhand methods to distort the demands of the public sector workers and paint them in the media as heartless demons who selfishly abandoned the sick and the infirm to wither away and die.
While government ministers like William Ntimama, Newton Kulundu and David Mwiraria complain that there is not enough money to pay the civil servants, we hear that the Kenya government wants to increase military allocation to the defence department from Sh17.8 billion allotted last year to Sh23.1 billion this year-an increase of 5.3 billion shillings.
Prime Minister Tony Blair, many of us are NOT convinced that the IMF/World Bank G-8 bitter neo-liberal medicine can work to create a miracle recovery- at least we do not see it happening on the backs and on the graves of hundreds of thousands of workers.
demokrasia-kenya.blogspot.com /2005/06/to-prime-minister-tb-on-eve-of-kenyan.html   (2767 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Kenya row over Prime Minister post
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki and his key ally in last year's general election, Raila Odinga, are headed for a major political confrontation.
According to a pre-election agreement between the parties that form Kenya's ruling National Rainbow Coalition (NARC), the post of executive prime minister was to have been created and allocated to the LDP.
Although Kenya has been officially mourning the death of Vice-President Wamalwa for the last two weeks, it was evident that the political engines were operating in overdrive with different parties lobbying for the vacant position of the Vice-President.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/africa/3091240.stm   (473 words)

  
 CBS News | Bush Pledges Support For Kenya | December 9, 2002 08:42:23
Evidence continues to mount that al Qaeda was behind the Kenya attacks — a bombing at a hotel frequented by Israelis and the firing of missiles at an Israeli charter flight.
Kenya is a possible destination for Bush when he travels to Africa next month, a stop that could include a visit to the newly reconstructed embassy that was the bombing target.
Kenya is regarded as a key U.S. ally in an unstable region.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/12/09/attack/main532237.shtml   (947 words)

  
 Come clean on the Thai wildlife deal
The Thai Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, is in the country for a three-day state visit.
This is the first time the Prime Minister is visiting Kenya in what has been hailed as a move to strengthen economic ties between Thailand and Kenya.
The Thai media was already reporting on Monday that the prime minister’s visit to Kenya was a welcome boost for the park and that Kenya had agreed to provide Thailand with 135 African wild animals.
www.eastandard.net /archives/cm/print/news.php?articleid=31885   (333 words)

  
 AEGiS-PRn: Joint Statement By the United States and the Republic of Kenya, And Ethiopia
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- At the invitation of President George W. Bush, President Daniel T. Arap Moi of Kenya and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia met at the White House on Thursday, December 5, 2002.
President Bush expressed his appreciation for the efforts of Kenya and Ethiopia in the peace process in Sudan and the reconciliation process in Somalia.
He also indicated his confidence in a smooth election and transition process in Kenya, and the prompt and continuous progress in the Ethiopia-Eritrea peace process as proscribed in the peace agreement.
www.aegis.com /news/PR/2002/PR021223.html   (643 words)

  
 kenya #1   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kenya is located on the equator in Eastern Africa bordering, clockwise from the north, Ethiopia, Somalia, the Indian Ocean, Tanzania, Lake Victoria, Uganda, and Sudan.
Kenya has an overall area of 582,646 square kilometers and a population of 32 million people.
Kenya became a republic in 1964, under the rule of the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.
www.faculty.fairfield.edu /faculty/hodgson/Courses/so191/Projects2003/Mary/Page1.html   (531 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Kenya
Kenya, republic in East Africa, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Kenya has a varied landscape of plateaus and high mountains and is home to...
Kenyatta, Jomo (1894?-1978), first prime minister (1963-1964) and then first president (1964-1978) of Kenya.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Kenya.html   (119 words)

  
 Weekly Special Report, December 12, 2002
President Bush welcomed President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi of Kenya and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia to the White House December 5.
President Moi, 77, has ruled Kenya since 1978 and is stepping down in deference to a constitutional amendment that bars him from seeking another term.
Prime Minister Meles, who is trying to lead Ethiopia to economic and political liberalization, is serving a second five-year term in office.
www.telecom.net.et /~usemb-et/wwwh4905.htm   (1213 words)

  
 Somalia's prime minister says Islamic fighters scattered, major fighting likely over - Africa & Middle East - ...
With attention shifting to suspected al-Qaida fighters believed to be sheltered by the hard-line group, a security official in neighboring Kenya said 10 foreigners who had fought with Somalia's Islamic movement had been captured there and told interrogators that the militia was doomed by internal rifts.
In the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told his parliament his troops were not peacekeepers and it would be too costly to keep them in Somalia for much longer, calling on the international community to act quickly to send in peacekeepers to avoid a vacuum.
Kibaki said Kenya would not be used as a refuge for people seeking to destabilize governments in the region — clearly referring to foreign fighters for the courts who may be sought for terrorism and other crimes.
www.iht.com /articles/ap/2007/01/02/africa/AF_GEN_Somalia.php?page=1   (1012 words)

  
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Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is on a three-day official visit to Kenya and his Government is expected to follow-up on talks between the two countries held in Thailand last year.
With wildlife populations in Kenya generally on the decline due to threats arising from poaching, habitat loss and land use changes, conservationists are concerned this is another threat to species’ survival.
IFAW urges Kenya to make public a report - believed to have been prepared last year by the Kenya Wildlife Service – which attempts to justify the planned wildlife move.
www.ifaw.org /ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=155480   (410 words)

  
 Towards an East African Federation
First, the European settler influence, which was strong in Kenya, would have extended throughout Uganda and Tanganyika thus complicating the struggle for independence in those territories.
Alarmed by the statements of the two Tanzanian Ministers Kambona and Swai, Kenya convened a meeting of Heads of Government in Nairobi (The Nairobi Summit) on April 10, 1964 to forge ways to end the existing trade imbalances and thereby facilitate progress towards political federation.
Kenya has developed more than Uganda and Tanganyika: the result is that we have only a legal common market, while in fact, it is Tanganyika which is the Common Market for all.
www.kituochakatiba.co.ug /eac2.htm   (2368 words)

  
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Mau Mau is a name given to a movement in the 1940s and 50s in Kenya.
The British first settled in Kenya in order to better control an important trade route in Africa that included the Nile River and the Indian Ocean.
In 1952, Kenya declared a “state of emergency,” which meant the killings had gotten out of hand.
www.forgirlsandtheirdreams.org /maumau.htm   (355 words)

  
 Panapress Official Website   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN has strongly condemned the murder of a key Somali activist-cum-aid worker who was gunned down by unknown militiamen in the capital Mogadishu in the early hours of Monday.
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Somali legislators and delegates who are expected to relocate to Mogadishu from Nairobi have requested the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to facilitate their return to Somalia.
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - For the first time since his appointment late last year, Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi is in Mogadishu this weekend in a bid to end the deadlock on the relocation of the Somali government that was formed here.
www.panapress.com /paysindexlat.asp?code=eng045   (2189 words)

  
 The Elephant Sanctuary, Hohenwald, Tennessee
Born Free feels, therefore, that questions must be asked about why Kenya feels that despite these risks it is willing to send some of its own, wild-caught, big cats to Thailand, including 20 lions, 3 cheetah and 3 leopard, as well as many wild-caught birds.
Indeed, Born Free is extremely happy to hear that Kenya's tourism industry is once again booming, and we are excited to witness Kenya's developing relationship with Thailand.
Visitors to Kenya come to see its wildlife as nature intended, not in captivity, and many will be appalled at the prospect that hundreds of wild animals may be about to leave.
www.elephants.com /media/amboseli_update_11_8_05.htm   (926 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Somalia - The Igaal Government | Somalian Information Resource   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The new president nominated as prime minister Mahammad Ibrahim Igaal, who raised cabinet membership from thirteen to fifteen members and included representatives of every major clanfamily, as well as some members of the rival SNC.
Although the new prime minister had supported Shermaarke in the presidential election, he was a northerner and had led a 1962 defection of the northern SNL assembly members from the government.
The prime minister did not relinquish Somalia's territorial claims, but he hoped to create an atmosphere in which the issue could be peacefully negotiated.
reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/somalia/somalia30.html   (1171 words)

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