A report on Kenya and East Africa

Image of the region between Lake Victoria (on the right) and Lakes Edward, Kivu and Tanganyika (from north to south) showing dense vegetation (bright green) and fires (red).

The Bab-el-Mandeb crossing in the Red Sea: now some 12 miles (20 km) wide, narrower in prehistory.

Early Iron Age findings in East and Southern Africa

The Turkana boy, a 1.6-million-year-old hominid fossil belonging to Homo erectus.

A traditional Swahili carved wooden door in Lamu.

Portuguese presence in Kenya lasted from 1498 until 1730. Mombasa was under Portuguese rule from 1593 to 1698 and again from 1728 to 1729.

The Kenya–Uganda Railway near Mombasa, about 1899.

A statue of Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan rebel leader with the Mau Mau who fought against the British colonial system in the 1950s.

The first president and founding father of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta.

Daniel arap Moi, Kenya's second President, and George W. Bush, 2001

A Köppen climate classification map of Kenya.

President Barack Obama in Nairobi, July 2015

A proportional representation of Kenya exports, 2019

Kenya, Trends in the Human Development Index 1970–2010.

The Kenya Commercial Bank office at KENCOM House (right) in Nairobi.

Workers at Olkaria Geothermal Power Plant

Maasai people. The Maasai live in both Kenya and Tanzania.

A Bantu Kikuyu woman in traditional attire

Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Cathedral in Mombasa.

Outpatient Department of AIC Kapsowar Hospital in Kapsowar.

Table showing different grades of clinical officers, medical officers, and medical practitioners in Kenya's public service

An MSc student at Kenyatta University in Nairobi.

Kenyan boys and girls performing a traditional dance

Nation Media House, which hosts the Nation Media Group

Jepkosgei Kipyego and Jepkemoi Cheruiyot at the 2012 London Olympics

Kenyan Olympic and world record holder in the 800 meters, David Rudisha.

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in Eastern Africa.

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Due to the historical Omani Empire and colonial territories of the British East Africa Protectorate and German East Africa, the term East Africa is often (especially in the English language) used to specifically refer to the area now comprising the three countries of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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Uganda

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A caesarean section performed by indigenous healers in Kahura, in the Empire of Kitara (present-day Uganda) as observed by medical missionary Robert William Felkin in 1879. This incident was recorded long before the arrival of the European missionary doctors and clinics. The kingdom performed a highly developed surgical procedure, the first-ever cesarean section technique that saved both the mother and child.

Construction of the Owen Falls Dam in Jinja.

The Uganda printers building on Kampala Road, Kampala, Uganda

Grey Crowned Crane - a symbol of Uganda.

Belligerents of the Second Congo War. On 19 December 2005, the International Court of Justice found against Uganda, in a case brought by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for illegal invasion of its territory, and violation of human rights.

Uganda map of Köppen climate classification.

U.S. President George W. Bush met with President Yoweri Museveni in Entebbe, Uganda, 11 July 2003.

Protests in New York City against Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

Graphical depiction of Uganda's product exports in 28 color-coded categories.

Change in per capita GDP of Uganda, 1950–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars.

Mobile operators offer money sending, receiving services, bill payments among many more services.

Cultural celebrations in Northern Uganda

Saint Mary's Cathedral Rubaga, is the parent cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala.

Uganda (Yuganda in Ugandan languages), officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Ugandaa nne ), is a landlocked country in East Africa.

The country is bordered to the East by Kenya, to the North by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania.

South Sudan

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Landlocked country in Central Africa.

John Garang de Mabior led the Sudan People's Liberation Army until his death in 2005.

A South Sudanese girl at independence festivities

Military situation in South Sudan on 22 March 2020
Under control of the Government of South Sudan
Under control of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition
Under control of the Government of Sudan

Salva Kiir Mayardit, the first President of South Sudan. His trademark Stetson hat was a gift from United States President George W. Bush.

South Sudan's presidential guard on Independence Day, 2011

The ten states and three administrative areas of South Sudan grouped in the three historical provinces of the Sudan Bahr el Ghazal Equatoria Greater Upper Nile

The 32 states of South Sudan, after the addition of 4 more states in 2017

The ten states of South Sudan grouped in the three historical provinces of the Sudan Bahr el Ghazal Equatoria Greater Upper Nile

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with President Salva Kiir, 26 May 2013

South Sudan map of Köppen climate classification.

Children in Yambio, Western Equatoria, South Sudan

Rural school children participating in the USAID-funded Southern Sudan Interactive Radio Instruction project, July 2010

Sunday Mass in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rumbek

Scarified tribeswoman, South Sudan, 2011

South Sudanese-born basketball player Luol Deng

A proportional representation of South Sudan exports, 2019

Loka Teaks is the largest teak plantation in Africa.

Passengers atop a train travelling towards Wau

Two Mil Mi-17 helicopters at Juba Airport

It is bordered by Ethiopia, Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya.

On 25 November 2011, it officially joined the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, a regional grouping of East African states.

Tanzania

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A 1.8-million-year-old stone chopping tool discovered at Olduvai Gorge and on display at the British Museum.

A 1572 depiction of the portuguese city of Kilwa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Battle during the Maji Maji Rebellion against German colonial rule in 1905.

Tanzania map of Köppen climate classification

The Masai giraffe is Tanzania's national animal

The semi-autonomous Zanzibar Archipelago

Tanzanian ambassador to Russia Jaka Mwambi presenting his credentials to the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev

Tanzanian Embassy in West End, Washington, D.C., USA

FIB Tanzanian special forces during training

A proportional representation of Tanzania exports, 2019

Historical development of real GDP per capita in Tanzania, since 1950

Nyerere Bridge in Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam

Domestic expenditure on research in Southern Africa as a percentage of GDP, 2012 or closest year. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015), Figure 20.3

A Tanzanian woman cooks Pilau rice dish wearing traditional Kanga.

Farmers using a rice harvester to harvest rice in Igunga District, Tanzania

Example of a World Food Programme parcel

Researchers (HC) in Southern Africa per million inhabitants, 2013 or closest year

Scientific publications per million inhabitants in SADC countries in 2014. Source: UNESCO Science Report (2015), data from Thomson Reuters' Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded

A carved door with Arabic calligraphy in Zanzibar

Nkrumah Hall at the University of Dar es Salaam

Judith Wambura (Lady Jaydee) is a popular Bongo Flava recording singer.

St Joseph's Catholic cathedral, Zanzibar

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha

East African Legislative Assembly in Arusha

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.

East African Community

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From left to right: President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya, and President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania during the eighth EAC summit in Arusha, November 2006.

EAC heads in 2009. From left to right: Yoweri Museveni (Uganda), Mwai Kibaki (Kenya), Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Jakaya Kikwete (Tanzania), Pierre Nkurunziza (Burundi).

Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the 2006 EAC summit. Rwanda joined the EAC on 1 July 2007.

Three EAC countries border Lake Victoria.

Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak, located in Tanzania.

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The East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organisation composed of seven countries in the Great Lakes region of East Africa: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania, the Republics of Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Uganda.

Swahili in Arabic script—memorial plate at the Askari Monument, Dar es Salaam (1927)

Swahili language

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Native language of the Waswahili who are found along the East African coast and litoral islands .

Although originally written with the Arabic script, Swahili is now written in a Latin alphabet introduced by Christian missionaries and colonial administrators. The text shown here is the Catholic version of the Lord's Prayer.

Swahili in Arabic script on the clothes of a girl in German East Africa (ca. early 1900s)

Loxodonta africana elephants frolic in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, 2012.

Due to concerted efforts by the government of Tanzania, Swahili is one of three official languages (the others being English and French) of the East African Community (EAC) countries, namely Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

It is a lingua franca of other areas in the African Great Lakes region and East and Southern Africa, including some parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Malawi, Mozambique, the southern tip of Somalia, and Zambia.

Horn of Africa

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King Ezana's Stela at Aksum, symbol of the Aksumite civilization.

Ancient trading centers in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula according to the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

The citadel in Gondershe, an important city in the medieval Ajuran Sultanate

The Lalibela churches carved by the Zagwe dynasty in the 12th century.

The Sultanate of Hobyo's cavalry and fort

Map of Africa in 1909. The Horn region is the easternmost projection of the African continent.

Haile Selassie's reign as emperor of Ethiopia is the best known and perhaps most influential in the nation's history.

Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia since 1886.

The Horn of Africa as seen from the NASA Space Shuttle in May 1993. The orange and tan colors in this image indicate a largely arid to semiarid climate.

Oryx beisa beisa is found throughout the Horn of Africa

A woman from Ethiopia carrying her earthenware water jugs

The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula in East Africa.

It is composed of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Somaliland and Djibouti; broader definitions also include parts or all of Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, and Uganda.

Ethiopia

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Landlocked country in the Horn of Africa.

Kibish has the site of oldest fossil of human bones believed to be 195,000 years old along with Omo River. The skull remains are 40,000 older than in Herto, Ethiopia

The Obelisk of Axum dates from the 4th century

Aksumite currency of the Aksumite king called Endubis, 227–35, at the British Museum. The inscriptions in Ancient Greek read "ΑΧΩΜΙΤΩ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ" ("King of Axum") and "ΕΝΔΥΒΙΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ" ("King Endubis"), the Greek language was the lingua franca by that time so its use in coins simplified foreign trade.

The Kingdom of Aksum at its peak in the 6th century

Manuscript illustration by Rashi ad-Din's "World History", depicting the King of Axum rejecting Meccan delegation to yield Muslims in the kingdom

Church of Saint George is one of amongst 11 rock-hewn churches of Zagwe's King Lalibela achievement

Emperor Yekuno Amlak portrait allegedly from the 18th century

Emperor Dawit II (r. 1507–1540), a member of the Solomonic dynasty

The Sultan of Adal (right) and his troops battling Emperor Yagbea-Sion and his men.

Emperor Susenyos I was the first emperor converted to Roman Catholic in 1622, stressing the populace attitude of Orthodox Tewahedo Christianity

Emperor Tewodros II ((r. 1855 – 1868)) brought an end of Zemene Mesafint

The conquests of Emperor Yohannes IV, Negus Menelik and general Ras Alula in 1879–1889

Haile Selassie at his study in Jubilee Palace (1942)

Ethiopian cavalry during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1936

Ras Seyoum Mengesha, Ras Getachew Abate and Ras Kebede Gubret with Benito Mussolini on 6 February 1937 in Rome, Italy, after the Italian occupation of Ethiopia

The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP) clashed with the Derg during the Red Terror

Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam (left) with fellow Derg members Tafari Benti (middle) and Atnafu Abate (right). Mengistu was sentenced to death in Ethiopia for crimes committed during his government, which killed up to 500,000 people; he lived in exile in Zimbabwe as of 2018.

Former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi at the 2012 World Economic Forum annual meeting

Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia Hailemariam Desalegn meeting with former US Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in Addis Ababa.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 2019

House of People's Representatives is the lower house of the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly

Former Foreign Minister of Ethiopia Tedros Adhanom with former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in May 2018

The Ethiopian National Defense Force soldiers during ceremony in Baidoa, Somalia to mark the inclusion of Ethiopia into the African Union peace keeping mission in the country on 22 January 2014

The Ethiopian Federal Police Marching Band performing on annual festival in Meskel Square, Addis Ababa on 16 September 2017

Karo people in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region

Wonchi Lake at the crossroads between Ambo and Waliso in Oromia Region

Köppen climate classification of Ethiopia

Mountain nyalas in Bale Mountains National Park, one of several wildlife reserves in Ethiopia

A proportional representation of Ethiopia exports, 2019

Ethiopia Export Treemap from MIT–Harvard Economic Complexity Observatory

Ethiopian Blessed Coffee branded bags in the United States. Coffee is one of main exports of Ethiopia.

The subterranean rock-hewn Church of Saint George in Lalibela is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Orthodox priests dancing during the celebration of Timkat

Rural area in the Simien Mountains National Park

Declining child mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa and Ethiopia since 1950

An Ethiopian girl about to receive her measles vaccine

An Ethiopian woman roasting coffee bean in coffee house. Coffee serving ceremony is the most important course in Ethiopia.

Alwan Codex 27 – Ethiopian biblical manuscript

Illustration showing two Aksumite scribes

The Royal Enclosure at Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar

Giyorgis of Segla, prolific religious author in the Late Middle Ages

Model commemorating the Obelisk of Aksum's return to Ethiopia from Italy, showing the date of its departure and return according to the Ethiopian calendar

Typical Ethiopian cuisine: injera (pancake-like bread) and several kinds of wat (stew)

Meskel commemorates the discovery of True Cross by Roman queen Helena in 326 AD

The Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation headquarter in Addis Ababa

Aksumite composer Yared credited with forebear of traditional music for both Ethiopia and Eritrea

Kenenisa Bekele in 2012. Track and field athletics often prosper Ethiopia to participate in Olympics

Emperor Fasilides (r. 1632–1667) was a major figure of Gondarine period

Emperor Iyoas I (r. 1755–1769) prematurely murdered at his reign by Ras Mikael Sehul in 1769

Genzebe Dibaba middle- and long-distance runner. A 1500 metres 2016 Rio Olympics silver medalist, she won a gold medal in this event and a bronze in the 5000 metres at the 2015 World Championships.

It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east and northeast, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest.

In East Africa, over 95% of cross-border trade is through unofficial channels.

Swahili coast

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Stone Town is the Zanzibar Archipelago's main city

Swahili is grouped in the Bantu language family (orange)

Houses are often decorated with carved door frames

The Swahili coast (الساحل السواحلي) is a coastal area of the Indian Ocean in East Africa inhabited by the Swahili people.

It includes Dar es Salaam; Sofala (located in Mozambique); Mombasa, Gede, Pate Island, Lamu, and Malindi (in Kenya); and Kilwa (in Tanzania).

Olorgesailie

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Olorgesailie is a geological formation in East Africa, on the floor of the Eastern Rift Valley in southern Kenya, 67 km southwest of Nairobi along the road to Lake Magadi.

Nairobi

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Nairobi County (red) in surrounding Nairobi Metro (green)

Entrance to Nairobi railway station in 1899

Nairobi showing Fedha Towers, ICEA Building, the Nairobi Safari Club and Anniversary Towers

River Athi on the eastern side of Nairobi

Kibera slums being upgraded to New Apartment by the Kenyan Ministry of housing and United Nations Habitat

Kenyatta Avenue with Uhuru Park between Upper Hill and the Nairobi CBD

Kenyatta International Convention Centre with Times Tower in the background

Nairobi is a major financial capital of Africa, and one of the most modern cities in Africa.

A view of Nairobi from the Kenyatta International Conference Centre

A giraffe at Nairobi National Park, with Nairobi's skyline in background

Museum hill interchange, where Uhuru highway links to forest road which is an extension of the Thika superhighway. Nairobi's tall skyscrapers can be seen on the background.

Nairobi metro map
Nairobi County (red)
Kajiado County (green)
Machakos County (yellow)
Kiambu County (purple)

Military helicopter over Westgate Shopping Mall

Nation Centre, headquarters of the Nation Media Group

Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya.

Companies that have moved from the Central Business District to Upper Hill include Citibank, and in 2007 Coca-Cola began construction of their East and Central African headquarters in Upper Hill, cementing the district as the preferred location for office space in Nairobi.