Local elections were held in Nairobi County to elect a Governor and County Assembly on 4 March 2013. Under the new constitution, which was passed in a...
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Local elections were held in Kenya on 4 March 2013 as part of the general elections. Voters elected governors and members of County Assemblies of the...
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Westgate shopping mall attack (redirect from 2013 Nairobi shopping mall attack)
On 21 September 2013, four masked gunmen attacked the Westgate shopping mall, an upmarket mall in Nairobi, Kenya. There are conflicting reports about...
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The county entity was effected in 2013, replacing Nairobi City Council, which had been the long-standing unit of local administration since before Kenya's...
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The Mayor of Nairobi was the non-executive head of Nairobi City Council in Nairobi, Kenya until the new constitution of 2010 which devolved government...
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Kibera (redirect from Kibera, Nairobi)
division and neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya, 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) from the city centre. Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, and the largest urban slum...
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Boundaries Commission (IEBC). They coincided with the 2013 Kenyan local elections. The presidential election saw Uhuru Kenyatta of the National Alliance (TNA)...
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Terrorism in Kenya (redirect from Blasts in Nairobi)
in Nairobi, as was the Israeli-owned Paradise hotel in 2002 in Mombasa. In 2013, the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab killed 67 people at Nairobi's Westgate...
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Local authorities in Kenya are the bodies controlling local governance in urban areas in Kenya. From the 2013 general elections onwards Kenya will have...
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2022). "Kenya opposition leader files court challenge to election result". The Guardian. Nairobi. Archived from the original on 23 August 2022. Retrieved...
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Edwin Sifuna (category University of Nairobi alumni)
Kenyan politician and the current Senator of Nairobi County after being elected in the 2022 Kenyan general election. He is the Secretary-General of the ODM...
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Beatrice Elachi (category Politicians from Nairobi)
as Speaker of the Nairobi County Assembly from 6 September 2017 until her resignation on 11 August 2020. As Speaker of the Nairobi County Assembly, she...
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Sub-Counties of Kenya (redirect from Nairobi region)
Kenya, excluding Nairobi which constituted a 47th district. Following the Kenyan general election, 2013, these districts and Nairobi now constitute the...
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Musalia Mudavadi (category University of Nairobi alumni)
resigned from his role as Minister of Local Government to contest for the presidency in the 2013 Kenyan general election where he finished third. He was the...
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The earliest account of Nairobi's /naɪˈroʊbɪ/ history dates back to 1899 when a railway depot was built in a brackish African swamp occupied by a pastoralist...
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Raila Odinga (redirect from Raila Odinga in the Kenyan general election)
Embassy in Nairobi was circulating on social media where Raila Odinga was being applauded on his ‘win’ in the 9 August 2022 Kenyan general elections. This...
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Provinces of Kenya (category 2013 disestablishments in Kenya)
Kenya was divided into eight provinces (see map). The provinces, excluding Nairobi Province, were subdivided into 46 districts as at 1992, which were further...
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Uhuru Kenyatta (category Alumni of St. Mary's School, Nairobi)
state of Kenya 2013 Kenyan general election 2017 Kenyan general election Jason Patinkin in Nairobi (30 March 2013). "Uhuru Kenyatta's election victory is...
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Mwai Kibaki (section 2002 elections)
and controversially beaten for the seat in the 1969 elections, moved his political base from Nairobi to his rural home, Othaya, where he was subsequently...
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Wangarĩ Maathai (category University of Nairobi alumni)
become a Doctor of Philosophy, receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Nairobi in Kenya. In 1984, she got the Right Livelihood Award for "converting the...
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prime minister, Sheikh Hasina after the 5 January elections. Chaudhury was uncontested in the by-elections and was nominated for speaker by the Awami League...
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Kenya (section 2013 elections and new government)
world and 7th most populous in Africa. Kenya's capital and largest city is Nairobi, while its oldest and second-largest city, is the major port city of Mombasa...
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Machakos County (redirect from Machakos Senator Election, 2017)
March 2013. Alfred Mutua, served as the inaugural holder of the office. following his election in 2012. He was re-elected in the 2017 general elections. The...
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Orange Democratic Movement (category EngvarB from May 2013)
two factions held their elections for presidential candidates on consecutive days at the Kasarani sports complex in Nairobi. On 31 August 2007, Kalonzo...
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Forum Party (UDF) in 2013. He was CEO of The Local Authorities Provident Fund and was town clerk in Moyale, Kilifi, Mombasa and Nairobi where he resigned...
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Eldoret (section Local governance)
people and is the fifth most populated urban area in the country after Nairobi, Mombasa, Nakuru and Ruiru. A longstanding municipality, Eldoret was conferred...
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William Ruto (category University of Nairobi alumni)
introduce him to politics during the 1992 general elections. After graduating from the University of Nairobi in 1990, Ruto was employed as a temporary teacher...
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Water supply and sanitation in Nairobi is characterised by achievements and challenges. Among the achievements is the expansion of infrastructure to keep...
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matatus in Nairobi alone. In 2002 the sect was banned and in February 2003, the sect was in the news following two days of clashes with Nairobi police which...
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Uasin Gishu County. The city lies along the Nairobi–Nakuru Highway, 160 kilometres (99 mi) from Nairobi. Archaeological discoveries were located about...
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