In the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ) Kenya became an important British military base for successful campaigns against Italy in the Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia.

* Arabs form a small but historically important minority ethnic group in Kenya.

Rift Valley Province is the largest and one of the most economically important provinces in Kenya.

Since the 1900s, Lake Victoria ferries have been an important means of transport between Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya.

From the beginning, anticommunism was an important theme of Moi's government ; speaking on the new President's behalf, Vice-President Mwai Kibaki bluntly stated, " There is no room for communists in Kenya.

In the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ) Kenya became an important British military base.

The forested slopes are an important source of water for much of Kenya.

Mount Kenya is important to all the ethnic communities living around it.

The Hong Kong Sevens tournament has been especially important in popularising the game in Asia, and rugby sevens has been important as a form of international rugby " evangelism ", hence is perhaps the most widely played form of the game, with tournaments in places as far apart as Bogota and Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Kenya, Singapore and Scandinavia, as well as the countries in which rugby union is well known.

He met several important black leaders and writers, including George Padmore, a leading figure in the Pan-African community there, Kwame Nkrumah of the Gold Coast and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, both later heads of state of their respective countries.

Jambonet, an important Kenyan ISP, is a subsidiary of Telkom Kenya.

It is an important area for plant biodiversity – over 50 % of the 159 rare plants in Kenya are found in the Shimba Hills, including some endangered species of cycad and orchids.

In Kenya, when hunting the elephants that were to form the most important of all the displays in the African Hall of the American Museum of Natural History, Carl Akeley was attacked by a bull elephant while out hunting with a team of his porters and helpers.

Other important institutions include The Institute of Advanced Studies, Kenya Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology ( KIBSAT ) and most recent Nakuru Counseling & Training Institute, which is a project of Nakuru Christian Professionals Association.

The river is important to Western Kenya, flowing through a region estimated to be populated by over 1. 5 million people.

Tsavo National Park in southeastern Kenya, crossed by the Nairobi-Mombasa road and railway axis, is the country's largest protected area ( 8, 200 square miles, or 21, 000 square kilometers ) and was declared a national park in 1948.

The zebra can be found in numerous protected areas across its range, including the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, Tsavo and Masai Mara in Kenya, Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, Etosha National Park in Namibia, and Kruger National Park in South Africa.

Then, following Chuichi Nagumo's Indian Ocean raid and raid on Ceylon in early 1942, the Fleet moved its operational base to Kilindini near Mombasa in Kenya, as their more forward fleet anchorages could not be adequately protected from Japanese attack.

It did not succeed in destroying Allied naval power in the Indian Ocean but it did force the British fleet to relocate from British Ceylon to Kilindini near Mombasa in Kenya, as their more forward fleet anchorages could not be adequately protected from Japanese attack.

Although this left Nairobi and the highlands with only limited defences, the barren regions of northern Kenya meant that the inland settlements were geographically protected from the Italian threat further to the north.

The Arabuko-Sokoke Forest is located on the coast of Kenya, 110 km north of Mombassa and is protected as a national Forest Reserve.

The Reserve, however, is jointly managed by the Kenya Forest Service, Kenya Wildlife Service, National Museums of Kenya and the Kenya Forest Research Institute and is one of the better protected forests in Kenya.

In Kenya it is protected by the hunting ban of 1977.

It lies to the south of Nakuru, in the rift valley of Kenya and is protected by Lake Nakuru National Park.

Mount Longonot is protected by the Kenya Wildlife Service as part of Mount Longonot National Park.

With the borders of the modern state at the crossroads of the Bantu, Nilo-Saharan and Afro-Asiatic ethno-linguistic areas of Africa, Kenya is a truly multi-ethnic state.

For many areas of Kenya, the daytime temperature rises about 12 C ( corresponding to a rise of about 22F ), almost every day.

The governments of Tanzania and Kenya maintain a number of Protected Areas: parks, conservation areas, game reserves, etc.

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In the 1930s Huxley visited Kenya and other East African countries to see the conservation work, including the creation of national parks, which was happening in the few areas that remained uninhabited due to malaria.

There was a major breakdown of law an order in several cities and regions, and the situation threatened to escalate into a cataclysmic disintegration of the country as whole areas began to be ethnically cleansed amidst threats of regions seceding from the country and leaving central Kenya " an Island like Lesotho ".

The shortcomings of the Kibaki presidency include the president's not so stellar performance in the areas of political reform ; constitutional reform ; containment of Corruption in Kenya ; addressing the fundamental problem of the country's wealth, income and development inequalities ; eliminating tribalism, and fostering national unity and cohesion ; reduction of youth unemployment and crime ; and facilitating generational change-as elaborated below.

In Sudan and Kenya, the Italians conquered only some small areas around border villages.

This nonparasitic form of elephantiasis is known as " nonfilarial elephantiasis " or " podoconiosis ", and areas of high prevalence have been documented in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia.

It is sung poetry and are a constant part of wedding music, and is associated with coastal areas like Lamu and Zanzibar, as well as with neighboring Kenya.

Taarab forms a major part of the social life of the Swahili people along the coastal areas ; especially Zanzibar, Tanga and even further in Mombasa and Malindi along the Kenya coast.

Turbans are usually worn as customary headwear, usually by men, in many communities in India, Afghanistan, the Middle East, in some areas of North Africa, in eastern Africa ( especially in Kenya ), South Asia, and some parts of Jamaica.

The British, on the other hand, wanted to link their possessions in Southern Africa ( modern South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Zambia ), with their territories in East Africa ( modern Kenya ), and these two areas with the Nile basin.

The largest numbers occur in areas such as the Masai Mara and Kajiado ( Kenya ); Serengeti, Ruaha and Selous ( Tanzania ); Luangwa Valley ( Zambia ); Okavango ( Botswana ); Hwange, Sebungwe and the Zambezi Valley ( Zimbabwe ); Kruger National Park ( South Africa ) and on private farms and conservancies ( South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia ).

In 1987 and 1988, Green and his wife had served as volunteer teachers in Kenya with WorldTeach and while in Africa, they visited rural areas of neighboring countries, including Tanzania.

In Northern areas where heavy snows occur, this plant is also susceptible to broken branches and uprooting in wet, heavy snow. The tree has also been introduced in Kenya on parts of Mount Kenya

It has also become naturalised in Afghanistan, Kenya, India, Iraq, the whole Mediterranean Basin, Pakistan and many other areas.

In the coastal areas of Kenya, baobab seeds are cooked with sugar, colored, and sold as a snack.

Bao is a traditional mancala board game played in most of East Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Comoros, Malawi, as well as some areas of DR Congo and Burundi.

Kenya Economic Stimulus Program outlines various objectives which include boosting the country's economic recovery, investing in long term solutions to the challenges of food security, expanding economic opportunities in rural areas for employment creation, promoting regional development for equity and social stability, improving infrastructure, enhancing the quality of education, availing affordable health-care for all Kenyans, investing in the conservation of the environment and expanding the access to and building the ICT capacity of the general populace of Kenya.

It does however have a continuous distribution over large areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania.

It is one of the most densely populated areas in Kenya ( after the two cities of Nairobi and Mombasa ), and the most densely populated rural area.