Uasin Gishu County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya located in the former Rift Valley Province. Eldoret has the county's largest population centre as...
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Uasin Gishu District, also known as Eldoret District, was one of the districts of Kenya, located in the Rift Valley Province. The town of Eldoret was...
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The Uasin Gishu people were a community that inhabited a plateau located in western Kenya that today bears their name. They are said to have arisen from...
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Kaptagat (category Populated places in Uasin Gishu County)
a settlement in Uasin Gishu County, in the southwestern part of Kenya. This part of the country, where the two counties of Uasin Gishu and Elgeyo Marakwet...
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Oropom people (section Uasin Gishu)
gorge. Other Oropom moved into Uasin Gishu Maasai held territory. According to Maasai tradition, an alliance of the Uasin Gishu and Siria communities attacked...
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Speaker of the Kenya National Assembly and woman representative for Uasin Gishu County She is a member of the United Democratic Alliance. Gladys obtained...
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Kimnyole (section Reconquest of Uasin Gishu)
routing of the Uasin Gishu Maasai by a combined force of the Naivasha and Laikipia Maasai. The Nandi then defeated the remnants of the Uasin Gishu at a battle...
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2000 BP. The name Sirikwa derives from a community that occupied the Uasin Gishu plateau perhaps as late as the 17th or 18th century. Seen to have developed...
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Siger people (section Uasin Gishu Ngishu - Siger war)
Uasin Gishu, as well as parts of Elgeyo-Marakwet, Trans Nzoia and a southern section of West Pokot; ...Commences from Kiporoom River in Uasin Gishu District...
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Jackson Mandago (category Uasin Gishu Politicians)
politician who currently serves as the senator of Uasin Gishu County. He served as the first Governor of Uasin Gishu County from 2013-2022. He was first elected...
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Local elections were held in Uasin Gishu to elect a Governor and County Assembly on 4 March 2013. Under the new constitution, which was passed in a 2010...
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Pokot to the north, Baringo County to the east, southeast and south, Uasin Gishu to the southwest and west, and Trans Nzoia to the northwest. The total...
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climbed the escarpment and started to settle on the highland east of Uasin Gishu plateau. When the British came, the Keiyos were pushed to settle in clusters...
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Jonathan Bii (category Uasin Gishu Politicians)
Moja is a Kenyan politician. He is currently the second governor of Uasin Gishu County, elected into office during the 2022 Kenyan general election....
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Trans-Nzoia 162 174 4 Ruiru Kiambu 490 120 14 Juja Kiambu 156 041 5 Eldoret Uasin Gishu 475 716 15 Mlolongo Machakos 136 351 6 Kisumu Kisumu 397 957 16 Malindi...
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Eldoret (category Populated places in Uasin Gishu County)
city in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. It serves as the capital of Uasin Gishu County. Located in western Kenya, and lying south of the Cherangani Hills...
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Matunda (category Populated places in Uasin Gishu County)
Matunda is a town in Soy Sub-county, Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. As of the year 2019, there are 10,807 inhabitants within the boundary of Matunda. Its...
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Eldoret North Constituency (category Uasin Gishu County)
constituency in Kenya. It was one of three constituencies in Uasin Gishu District, now Uasin Gishu County. The constituency was established for the 1966 elections...
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The constituencies of Kenya are used to elect members of the National Assembly, the lower chamber of the Kenyan Parliament. In accordance with Article...
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Chok people (section Uasin Gishu Maasai)
ancestors who arrived from the Uasin Gishu plateau with a sword known as rotuet-ap-chok (sword of/from Chok) as the Uasin Gishu Maasai. Similarly immigrants...
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Kesses Constituency (category Constituencies in Uasin Gishu County)
Kesses is a constituency in Kenya, one of six constituencies in Uasin Gishu County, the member of parliament for this constituency is Dr Swarup Ranjan...
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William Ruto (category Uasin Gishu Politicians)
William Ruto was born on 21 December 1966 in Sambut village, Kamagut, Uasin Gishu County, to Daniel Cheruiyot and Sarah Cheruiyot. Ruto started his education...
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Burnt Forest (category Populated places in Uasin Gishu County)
Burnt Forest is a town in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. In the 1960s, forested land in what is now the town of Burnt Forest was cleared to make way for farms...
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making it the largest urban center in the Rift Valley, above Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County. The city lies along the Nairobi–Nakuru Highway, 160 kilometres...
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northern parts of eastern Africa. It ranges in northwestern Kenya (from Uasin Gishu and Lake Baringo) to the Karamoja district of Uganda. It is also found...
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Moi University is a public university located in Kesses, Eldoret town, Uasin Gishu county, in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya. It was established...
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Kamagut is a Sub-Location in Turbo Division of the Uasin Gishu County. It is 15 km from the town of Eldoret. William Ruto, the current President of Kenya...
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Soy Constituency (category Constituencies in Uasin Gishu County)
Soy is a constituency in Kenya, one of six constituencies in Uasin Gishu County. The name is derived from the Kalenjin word Soin meaning hot. "Constituency...
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Loikop people (section Uasin Gishu)
conquering the 'Senguer' people who dwelt on the plateau now known as Uasin Gishu and almost annihilated this community. This expansion was followed by...
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University, a public university, whose main campus is located in Kesses, Uasin Gishu County. He was born in the Kibera slum in Nairobi. His parents were of...
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