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    Embu County is a county of the Republic of Kenya. The capital of Embu County and the former Eastern province headquarters, Embu is a large and largely...
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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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    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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    Mandera District (Mandera) Wajir District (Wajir) Eastern Region: Embu District (Embu) Isiolo District (Isiolo) Kitui District (Kitui) Machakos District...
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    Senate elections were held in Kenya on 4 March 2013 as part of the general elections. Under the new constitution, which was passed in a 2010 referendum...
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    the local residents shifted to PNU in the contested 2007 elections and overwhelmingly voted for the PNU candidate - Mwai Kibaki. In the four elections that...
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    as of 2019. The county borders Nairobi and Kiambu counties to the west, Embu to the north, Kitui to the east, Makueni to the south, Kajiado to the south...
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    have largely voted with the Kikuyu and Embu in subsequent presidential elections. In non-presidential elections, most constituencies in the Greater Meru...
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    Kenya Kikuyu, Meru and Embu communities. The Commission of Inquiry into Post Election Violence (CIPEV) put it thus: The post election violence [in early 2008...
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    amongst the Kikuyu and neighbouring groups in central Kenya, including the Embu and Meru. Odinga, as a member of the Luo ethnic group, succeeded in creating...
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    General elections were held in Kenya on Tuesday, 9 August 2022. Voters elected the president, governors, senators, members of the National Assembly, and...
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    Senate of Kenya (category EngvarB from May 2013)
    first to include the election of Senators representing the 47 newly created counties. They were also the first general elections run by the Independent...
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    Kĩrĩnyaga (literally 'the mountain with brightness') in Kikuyu, while the Embu call it "Kirinyaa". All three names have the same meaning. Ludwig Krapf recorded...
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    farmers, with the Kikuyu the favoured recipients, along with their allies the Embu and the Meru. By 1978, most of the country's wealth and power was in the...
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    National Assembly elections were held in Kenya as part of the general election on 4 March 2013. Under the new constitution, which was passed in a 2010...
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    governments were established in all 47 counties after the general elections in March 2013. The counties' names are set out in the First Schedule of the Constitution...
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    Provinces of Kenya (category 2013 disestablishments in Kenya)
    The provinces of Kenya were replaced by a system of counties in 2013, after the 2010 constitution was effected. Before the new constitution of Kenya that...
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    National Assembly and Senate. They coincided with the 2017 Kenyan local elections which elected Governors and representatives in the devolved governments...
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    Kamba people (category EngvarB from May 2013)
    live in the area of Kenya stretching from Nairobi to Tsavo and north to Embu, in the southern part of the former Eastern Province. This land is called...
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    Kenyan general election. The other Kenyan female governors include Susan Kihika-Nakuru County, Gladys Wanga-Homa Bay County, Cecicly Mbarire-Embu County, Wavinya...
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    Mau Mau rebellion (category Use British English from March 2013)
    Embu fighters, the KLFA also comprised units of Kamba and Maasai who fought against the European colonists in Kenya, the British Army, and the local Kenya...
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    A series of by-elections were held in Kenya on 11 and 12 June 1966, becoming known as the "little general election". They followed the defection of 29...
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    Kikuyu people (category Use British English from May 2013)
    Northeastern Bantu branch. Their language is most closely related to that of the Embu and Mbeere. Geographically, they are concentrated in the vicinity of Mount...
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  • on the ticket of Alliance Party of Kenya (APK). Njagagua, born in Mbeere, Embu County, studied law at the University of Nairobi from 1992 to 1996. He is...
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    Murang'a County (category Articles that may contain original research from July 2013)
    North East of Nairobi, 70 km South East of Nyeri and 50 km South West of Embu. There is also Kenya Medical Training College Murang’a Campus (KMTC). This...
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    Report of 2017 Elections (PDF). Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. 2020-04-01. Retrieved 2020-08-28. Data Report of 2017 Elections (PDF). Independent...
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    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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    Kitui County (category Use British English from May 2013)
    shares its borders with seven counties; Tharaka-Nithi and Meru to the north, Embu to the northwest, Machakos and Makueni to the west, Tana River to the east...
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  • resulted in violence in several previous Kenyan elections, most notably in the 1992 Kenyan Elections. This issue prompted the Kikuyu to start defending...
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