A report on Kenya

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.
British East Africa in 1909
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
Uhuru Kenyatta in 2014.
A map of Kenya.
A Köppen climate classification map of Kenya.
Kenya's third president, Mwai Kibaki
The Supreme Court of Kenya building.
President Barack Obama in Nairobi, July 2015
Emblem of the Kenya Defence Forces
Kenya's 47 counties.
A proportional representation of Kenya exports, 2019
Kenya, Trends in the Human Development Index 1970–2010.
Amboseli National Park
Tsavo East National Park
Tea farm near Kericho, Kericho County.
Agricultural countryside in Kenya
The Kenya Commercial Bank office at KENCOM House (right) in Nairobi.
Workers at Olkaria Geothermal Power Plant
The official logo of Vision 2030.
Lake Turkana borders Turkana County
Lions Family Portrait Masai Mara
Maasai people. The Maasai live in both Kenya and Tanzania.
Child labour in Kenya
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
School children in a classroom.
An MSc student at Kenyatta University in Nairobi.
A Maasai girl at school.
Kenyan boys and girls performing a traditional dance
Nation Media House, which hosts the Nation Media Group
Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
Popular Kenyan musician Jua Cali.
Jepkosgei Kipyego and Jepkemoi Cheruiyot at the 2012 London Olympics
Kenyan Olympic and world record holder in the 800 meters, David Rudisha.
Ugali and sukuma wiki, staples of Kenyan cuisine

Country in Eastern Africa.

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Turkana Boy

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Name given to fossil KNM-WT 15000, a nearly complete skeleton of a Homo ergaster youth who lived 1.5 to 1.6 million years ago.

Name given to fossil KNM-WT 15000, a nearly complete skeleton of a Homo ergaster youth who lived 1.5 to 1.6 million years ago.

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Turkana boy reconstruction
Actual fossils of Turkana Boy

It was discovered in 1984 by Kamoya Kimeu on the bank of the Nariokotome River near Lake Turkana in Kenya.

Treetops Hotel

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The view of the waterholes from the Treetops Hotel
Commemorative Plaque at the Treetops Hotel (2005)
Cover of Eric Walker's book about the Treetops Hotel which he founded and ran

Treetops Hotel was a hotel in Aberdare National Park in Kenya near the township of Nyeri, 1,966 m (6,450 ft) above sea level on the Aberdare Range and in sight of Mount Kenya.

2017 Kenyan general election

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General elections were held in Kenya on 8 August 2017 to elect the President, members of the National Assembly and Senate.

Kisii people

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The Abagusii (also known as Kisii (Mkisii/Wakisii) in Swahili, or Gusii in Ekegusii) are a highly diverse East African ethnic group and nation indigenous to Kisii (formerly Kisii District) and Nyamira counties of former Nyanza, as well as parts of Kericho and Bomet counties of the former Rift Valley province of Kenya.

The Abagusii (also known as Kisii (Mkisii/Wakisii) in Swahili, or Gusii in Ekegusii) are a highly diverse East African ethnic group and nation indigenous to Kisii (formerly Kisii District) and Nyamira counties of former Nyanza, as well as parts of Kericho and Bomet counties of the former Rift Valley province of Kenya.

Gusii woman in native attire ca.1905-1907
Gusii woman in native ornaments ca.1905-1907
Three Gusii women walking ca.1916-1938.
Gusii warrior Otenyo Nyamaterere ca.1905-1907.
Gusii women grinding millet while other natives watch ca.1916-1938
Gusii women thrashing corn with children watching ca.1916-1938.
Gusii women grinding millet ca.1916-1938
Gusii woman with a baby and a load of firewood ca.1916-1938
Gusii woman sitting in front of a hut ca.1916-1938
A Christian Gusii man accompanied with other Gusii tribesmen ca.1916-1938
Gusii native students at the Adventist school ca.1916-1938
Gusii spearmen with shields and spears ca.1916-1938
A typical traditional Gusii parliament ca.1916-1938.

The Abagusii traditionally inhabit Nyamira, and Kisii counties of former Nyanza and sections of Kericho and Bomet counties of the former Rift Valley province of Kenya.

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

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Regional economic community in Africa with twenty-one member states stretching from Tunisia to Eswatini.

Regional economic community in Africa with twenty-one member states stretching from Tunisia to Eswatini.

Nine of the member states formed a free trade area in 2000 (Djibouti, Egypt, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe), with Rwanda and Burundi joining the FTA in 2004, the Comoros and Libya in 2006, Seychelles in 2009 and Tunisia and Somalia in 2018.

Koitalel Arap Samoei Mausoleum and Museum in Nandi Hills, Kenya

Koitalel Arap Samoei

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Koitalel Arap Samoei Mausoleum and Museum in Nandi Hills, Kenya

Koitalel Arap Samoei (1860 – October 19, 1905) was an Orkoiyot, the supreme chief of the Nandi people of Kenya.

2011 East Africa drought

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Occurring between July 2011 and mid-2012, a severe drought affected the entire East African region.

Occurring between July 2011 and mid-2012, a severe drought affected the entire East African region.

Carcasses of sheep and goats amidst a severe drought in Waridaad in the Somaliland region
Rainfall levels in the larger East Africa region from 1995–2011.
Turkana women in the Turkana District, one of Kenya's most drought-affected regions.
A Somali woman and child at a relief center in Dollow on the Somalia-Ethiopia border.
New Ifo II camp in Kenya, built to try and ease overcrowding in the Dadaab complex.
A Somali boy receiving treatment at a health facility in Hilaweyn.
The battle flag of Al-Shabaab, an Islamist group implicated in the crisis
A girl stands amid the graves of 70 children on the outskirts of Dadaab. The long desert journey to the relief camps has claimed many lives.
The Somali National Army (SNA) and Somali Police Force (SPF) have ramped up security operations in the wake of the drought.
Relief supplies at an Oxfam warehouse in Kenya
Oxfam distributing clean water to a drought-stricken area in southern Ethiopia
Oxfam staff preparing to fly in relief supplies

Said to be "the worst in 60 years", the drought caused a severe food crisis across Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya that threatened the livelihood of 9.5 million people.

Troops of the King's African Rifles on watch for Mau Mau rebels

Mau Mau rebellion

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War in the British Kenya Colony (1920–1963) between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), also known as the Mau Mau, and the British authorities.

War in the British Kenya Colony (1920–1963) between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), also known as the Mau Mau, and the British authorities.

Troops of the King's African Rifles on watch for Mau Mau rebels
Map of Kenya
Lieutenant General Sir George Erskine, Commander-in-Chief, East Africa Command (centre), observing operations against the Mau Mau
British Army patrol crossing a stream carrying FN FAL rifle (1st and 2nd soldiers from right); Sten Mk5 (3rd soldier); and the Lee–Enfield No. 5 (4th and 5th soldiers)

The Hola massacre was an incident during the conflict in Kenya against British colonial rule at a colonial detention camp in Hola, Kenya.

Somalis in Kenya

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Somali-owned businesses in Eastleigh, Nairobi
Aden Duale, a Kenyan ethnic Somali, previously served as majority leader in the National Assembly
A Somali store owner
Somali entrepreneur Hussein Mohamed, Vice Chairman of the Eastleigh Business Association

Somalis in Kenya are citizens and residents of Kenya who are of Somali ethnic descent.

Jomo Kenyatta (pictured 1966) tried to suppress the rebellion without empowering the Kenya Army.

Shifta War

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Jomo Kenyatta (pictured 1966) tried to suppress the rebellion without empowering the Kenya Army.
The shiftas raided cattle, including camels, during the conflict.

The Shifta War or gaf Daba (1963–1967) was a secessionist conflict in which ethnic Somalis in the Northern Frontier District (NFD) of Kenya attempted to join Somalia.