*, Kenya shelters 16, 428 refugees from Ethiopia.

The floods also destroyed shelters housing 25, 000 Somali refugees in Kenya near Dorooro in Ogaden.

To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $ 80 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 12, 000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq.

To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $ 80 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 12, 000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq.

Having completely recovered from mononucleosis in the spring of 1968, he won a silver medal in the 1500 meters that autumn in the high altitude of Mexico City, losing to Kip Keino from Kenya, whose remarkable race remained the Olympic 1, 500-meter record for 16 years.

Mombasa's port is the largest in Kenya, with 16 deep water berths and two oil terminals.

State visits typically involve a military review such as this one by the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps | United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps parading on the South Lawn at the White House during a State Arrival Ceremony for the President of Kenya on October 16, 2003.

In Pakistan's opening match of the tournament, Afridi took 5 wickets for 16 runs against Kenya, giving him the best bowling figures by a Pakistan bowler in a World Cup.

With an elevation of 5, 109 m ( 16, 763 ft ), it is the highest mountain of both the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, and the third highest in Africa, after Kilimanjaro ( 5, 895 m ) and Mount Kenya ( 5, 199 m ).

Between March 4 – 16 of the year 2000, the ITGA, financed by the tobacco industry, set out on what they dubbed a " Roadshow ," during which ITGA representatives spoke to policy-makers in the developing countries of India, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, in addition to two " mini-Roadshows " in Argentina and Brazil, in order to voice ITGA opposition to the FCTC on the grounds that the CTE had underestimated the threat that tobacco control would pose to developing economies.

In Ethiopia, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo around 10 % of the population is infected, in Madagascar 16 %.

Twelve teams, comprising the ten Test nations, Kenya, and – making their One Day International debut – the United States, competed in 15 matches spread over 16 days at three venues: Edgbaston, The Rose Bowl and The Oval.

Willy Munyoki Mutunga ( born, 16 June 1947 in Kitui District, Eastern Kenya ) is a Kenyan lawyer, intellectual and pro-reform activist.

The plan was not carried out because it would have greatly damaged some allies such as Kenya and Uganda, and the effect of shutting off the Nile's source would not have affected Egypt for at least 16 months.

They lost 4 out of their 5 games: a 10 wicket loss to eventual champions Kenya, a 4 wicket loss to Ireland, losing by 56 runs to Canada ( being bowled out inside just 16 overs ) and losing by 8 wickets to the Netherlands ; their only win coming against Scotland by 5 wickets.

A demonstration project involving various private companies is planned to take place over 12-18 months in 16 countries including: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda.

Also, other major urban center's proximity distances from Kisii town are ; Kisumu city which is 114 km ( 71 mi ) to the northwest, Nyamira at 23 km ( 14 mi ) to the immediate north ; Keroka at 25 km ( 16 mi ) to the east ; Kericho at 101 km ( 63 mi ) to the northeast, Kilgoris at 46 km ( 29 mi ) to the southeast ; Narok at 165 km ( 103 mi ) to the east, and Migori to the south-west 67 km ( 42 mi ) which otherwise connects the town to the Kenya / Tanzania border at Isebania town located a further 31 km ( 19 mi ) south.

Nigeria had over 25 fellows followed by Kenya with 16 and Egypt with 14.

The total for the rest of the world at that time was 134, including 56 from the United States, 16 each from Britain and Germany, 12 each from Italy and the Philippines, 8 in Canada, 4 in Kenya, 2 in Denmark and 1 each from France, Holland, Australia, Greece, Sweden, Norway and Switzerland.

* In September 2011, the IKEA Foundation pledged to donate $ 62 million to help Somali refugees in Kenya.

Kenya serves as a major host for refugees from Somalia and Sudan and currently has troops in three United Nations peacekeeping operations.

Kenya also serves as the major host for refugees from turmoil in Somalia.

Hundreds were injured, and state forces were reported to have attacked boats of refugees fleeing to Kenya.

UNHCR presently has major missions in Lebanon, South Sudan, Chad / Darfur, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan as well as Kenya to assist and provide services to IDPs and refugees.

Thousands of refugees have been granted political asylum in Kenya.

They settled in Kenya as refugees and they had a well formed and a very organized language, political system and economic activities.

Maroofi took care of dossiers involving cross border refugees during political crisis in Iraq, Kenya, Tanzania and Somalia from 1985 to 1992.

Shortly afterwards, refugees from Kenya and Uganda, fearing discrimination from their own national governments, began to arrive in Britain ; as they had retained their British nationality granted by the 1948 Act, they were not subject to the later controls.

But many of the new immigrants were refugees from communism in Europe, others were former service personnel from British India, others came from Kenya, the Belgian Congo, Zambia, Algeria, and Mozambique.

A bongo drinks from a swamp. Angola, Benin extinct ?, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d ' Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya ( the only place where the eastern bongo are found in the wild ), Liberia, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo extinct?

All bongos in captivity are from the isolated Aberdare Mountains of central Kenya.

The Bongo Surveillance Programme, working alongside the Kenya Wildlife Service, have recorded photos of bongos at remote salt licks in the Aberdare Forests using camera traps, and, by analyzing DNA extracted from dung, have confirmed the presence of bongo in Mount Kenya, Eburru and Mau forests.

By managing all four populations as one-through strategic transfers, gene-loss is reduced from 8 % per decade to 2 % per decade, without any increase in bongo numbers in Kenya.

Another group emigrated to British-ruled Kenya, from where most returned to South Africa during the 1930s, while a third group under the leadership of General Ben Viljoen emigrated to Mexico and to New Mexico and Texas in south-western USA.

A major military base was built in Kenya, and the African colonies came under an unprecedented degree of direct control from London.

However, chimpanzee fossils have now been reported from Kenya.

Note that the so-called Kinshasa Highway is not a physical road but a metaphor applied to the route by which AIDS is believed to have been spread east through Uganda and Kenya and neighbouring countries by truck drivers from the Congo.

In the 15 years of existence, the OUT has enrolled students from Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Namibia, Hungary, Burundi, Libya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Lesotho, Botswana and most of the United Republic of Tanzania.

The australopithecine species that are best represented in the fossil record is Australopithecus Afarensis with more than a hundred fossil individuals represented, found from Northern Ethiopia ( such as the famous " Lucy "), to Kenya, and South Africa.

The earliest known catarrhine is Kamoyapithecus from uppermost Oligocene at Eragaleit in the northern Kenya Rift Valley, dated to 24 million years ago.

* Homo rudolfensis refers to a single, incomplete skull from Kenya.

In Africa, East Africa-including Kenya, Tanzania, and the White Nile basin-experiences, in the long rains from March to May, wetter-than-normal conditions.

** Pakistan versus a touring ' A ' team from a Test country or Kenya

** Pakistan ' A ' versus a touring ' A ' team from a Test country or Kenya

This competition involves teams from Afghanistan, Canada, Ireland, Kenya, Namibia, Netherlands, Scotland and the United Arab Emirates.

In Kenya, Christian missionaries in the 1920s and 1930s forbade their adherents from practising it — in part because of the medical consequences, but also because the accompanying rituals were seen as highly sexualized — and as a result it became a focal point of the independence movement among the Kikuyu, the country's main ethnic group.

Protestant missionaries campaigning against it tried to gain support from humanitarian and women's rights groups in London, where the issue was raised in the House of Commons, and in Kenya itself a person's stance toward FGM became a test of loyalty, either to the Christian churches or to the Kikuyu Central Association.

In 1956, under pressure from the British, the council of male elders ( the Njuri Nchecke ) in Meru, Kenya, announced a ban on clitoridectomy.

The Mass Media has been speculating that pirates from Somalia use the hawala system to move funds internationally, for example into neighboring Kenya, where these transactions are neither taxed nor recorded.

The British Empire established the East Africa Protectorate in 1895, from 1920 known as the Kenya Colony.

Cushitic language-speaking people from northern Africa moved into the area that is now Kenya beginning around 2000 BC.

After decades of small-scale conflict the Portuguese were defeated in Kenya by Arabs from Oman.