In 1999 Moi appointed Uhuru the new chairman of the Kenya Tourism Board, where he worked with Kenya's political power-broker Nicholas Biwott, a very close confidante of the president.

Mungiki arguably has its roots in discontent arising from severe unemployment and landlessness arising from Kenya's rapid population growth, with many disaffected unemployed youth attracted to an organisation giving them a sense of purpose and cultural and political identity, as well as income.

Kenya's diversity is such that its largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu, make up for less than a fifth of total population.

Cushitic peoples form a significant minority of Kenya's population.

They number about 6. 1 million people, being about 16 % of Kenya's total population of 38. 5 million.

Numbering about 6 million ( 22 % of Kenya's population ), they are the largest ethnic group in Kenya.

Shimba Hills contains Kenya's only population of Sable Antelope.

The Kenya Wildlife Service has created a Safari Walk that highlights the variety of plants and animals that are in Kenya, and how they affect Kenya's population.

Among Kenya's urban areas, Kisii municipality has a relatively high population density.

Komen is from the Keiyo sub-tribe of Kalenjin people and grew up in a rural area of Kenya's Rift Valley Province.

When it became apparent that Maathai was going to win the election, Maendeleo Ya Wanawake, a member organization which represented a majority of Kenya's rural women and whose leader was close to arap Moi, withdrew from the NCWK.

In the modern Akamba family, the women, especially in the urban regions, practice professions such as teaching, law, medicine, nursing, secretarial work, management, tailoring and other duties in accordance with Kenya's socioeconomic evolution.

Nakuru, the provincial capital of Kenya's Rift Valley province, with roughly 300, 000 inhabitants, and currently the fourth largest urban centre in the country, lies about 1850 m above sea level.

Moreover, like many of Kenya's major urban centers, there is an influx of numerous other business ventures such as the hospitality sector with hotels, bars, restaurants, sports pubs, among other commercial activities.

Kenya's relations with Somalia deteriorated over the problem of Somalis in the North Eastern Province who tried to secede and were supported by Somalia.

The formation of FORD triggered a chain of events that were to change Kenya's political landscape, culminating in ending KANU's 40 years in power – eight years after Odinga's death.

The tea plantations established around Limuru from 1903 onwards were the foundation of Kenya's largest export industry, which produces some of the world's highest quality tea.

Kenya's first multiparty elections were held in 1992.

The effects of Goldenberg were devastating to Kenya's economy in the late 1990s.

The first time Cricket Kenya's notice was attracted was when during the 2011 ODI World Cup, there were reports of internal dissent between the team, as the team had a disastrous World Cup, losing all six of their games.

The missionaries were forced to venture into Kenya's rugged interior, and Murang ' a was one of the first places they settled.

There were also popular folk songs of Kenya's Luo peoples.

A 2003 study reported that two-thirds of Kenya's electrical needs were supplied by the series of dams along the Tana River.

Kenya's total of 210 / 8 ( Mehta 52 ) was too much for Papua New Guinea, for whom W Maha with 61 was the only man to pass 32 ; the Papuans were bowled out for 173 to lose by 37 runs.

The main education institutions were started or sponsored by churches notably Catholic, Methodist ( the dominant church in the region ) and Presbyterian. One of Kenya's new gems in the education sector, Kenya Methodist University ( KEMU ) was awarded its Charter on June 28, 2006 by His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki.

Kenya's captain Tom Tikolo top-scored with 48 as the Africans reached 228 all out against Argentina, who were unable to cope with the bowling of Zahoor Sheikh ( 4-25 ) and could do no better than 141, thus losing by 87 runs.

Certain protected areas exist that shelter large and exceptionally visible populations of lions, hyenas, leopards and cheetahs, such as Botswana's Chobe, Kenya's Masai Mara, and Tanzania's Serengeti.

Mombasa is a major trade centre and home to Kenya's only large seaport, the Kilindini Harbour.

The Kilifi District Hospital serves all of Kilifi District, and also supports the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, a large medical research center collaborative between Kenya's KEMRI and the British Wellcome Trust, known internationally for its work on malaria and bacterial and viral childhood infections.

With a high altitude and virtually daily rains, Kericho is the centre of Kenya's large tea industry, its town square even known as Chai Square ( Chai is Hindi for Tea ).

Kericho is home to Kenya's large tea industry.

) Kenya's first peacekeeping deployment was to UNTAG in Namibia ; from 1989 to 2001, Kenyan troops took part in UNTAG, UNOSOM, UNPROFOR, UNCRO ( Croatia ), UNTAES, UNOMIL, UNPREDEP in MAcedonia ( 1996-1999 ), MONUA in Angola ( 1997-1999 ), and UNTAET in East Timor ( 1999-2001 ).

The President, who was elected in 2002 on a reform platform, is also yet to deliver long clamored for fundamental reforms and a new constitution, instead maintaining the status quo ante which he helped to establish and was a major part of, and thus keeping the overwhelming presidential powers granted by Kenya's current constitution.

It does also seem that his template is the presidency of Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta, and that a major aim of his presidency is the preservation of the elite that emerged during the Kenyatta years, which he is part of, along with the system that made that elite and so much preserves and favours it.

He also took part in the conferences at Lancaster House leading up to Kenya's independence, which was achieved within the Commonwealth in December 1963.

He was born in Tseikuru, in a remote part of Mwingi District ( then part of Kitui District ) in Kenya's Eastern Province.

Despite guerilla warfare and protest, being part of Kenya's struggle for independence peaceful negotiations led by former KAU leaders prevailed inspiring other movements across Africa and the world.

The town is situated about 150 km ( a two hour drive ) north of Kenya's capital Nairobi, in the country's densely populated and fertile Central Highlands, lying between the eastern base of the Aberdare ( Nyandarua ) Range, which forms part of the eastern end of the Great Rift Valley, and the western slopes of Mount Kenya.

During the Second World War, the regiment raised nine battalions, and saw action in Kenya's Northern Frontier District, Italian Somaliland, Abyssinia and Burma as part of the 2nd ( West Africa ) Infantry Brigade.

Isiolo is set to become a major part of Kenya's economic development plan Vision 2030.

KAU acted as a constituency association for the first black member of Kenya's legislative council, Eliud Mathu, who had been nominated in 1944 by the governor after consulting élite African opinion.

Lancaster House Conferences ( Kenya ) | Lancaster House Conference held in 1963 for Kenya's Independence.

His work serves as an important theoretical gloss for writers like Ghana's Ayi Kwei Armah, Senegal's Ken Bugul and Ousmane Sembène, Zimbabwe's Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Kenya's Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o.

Mombasa, on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, is a popular destination for foreign visitors and the hotel was frequented mainly by Israeli tourists.

Some of his supporters floated the idea of amending the constitution to allow him to run for a third term, but Moi preferred to retire, choosing Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's first President, as his successor.

During the period in which Kenya's interior was being forcibly opened up for British settlement, an officer in the Imperial British East Africa Company asserted, " There is only one way to improve the Wakikuyu that is wipe them out ; I should be only too delighted to do so, but we have to depend on them for food supplies ", and colonial officers such as Richard Meinertzhagen wrote of how, on occasion, they massacred Kikuyu by the hundred.

After resigning as a cabinet minister in 1991, Kibaki served as an opposition Member of Parliament from 1991 up to his election as Kenya's third president in 2002 after two unsuccessful bids for the Kenyan presidency in 1992 and 1997.

In early 1960, Mwai Kibaki left academia for politics when he gave up his job at Makerere and returned to Kenya to become executive officer of Kenya African National Union ( KANU ), at the request of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga ( who went on to become Kenya's first Vice President ).

President Daniel Arap Moi, who had been Kenya's second president for 24 years since 1978, also began his retirement.

The President has been criticized for poor political management of the country, and apparent failure to unite, and amply manage the competing interests of, Kenya's various tribes.

He has also been criticised for ruling through a post colonial clique consisting largely of his relatives, other Kikuyus, mostly from his native Kiambu district, and African Kikuyu colonial collaborators and their offspring, while giving scant reward to those whom most consider the real fighters for Kenya's independence.

Kenyatta was the uncle of Ngethe Njoroge, Kenya's first representative to the United Nations and the great uncle of Tom Morello, the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine.

KAU acted as a constituency association for the first black member of Kenya's legislative council, Eliud Mathu, who had been nominated in 1944 by the governor after consulting with the local Bantu / Nilotic elite.

Following a coordinated operation between the Somalian military and the Kenyan military in 2011, President of Somalia Sharif Ahmed initially expressed reservations about the deployment of Kenyan troops for what a BBC correspondent suggested was his opposition to the notion of Kenya's involvement in the Jubaland Initiative.

Qatar has plans to lease 40, 000 hectares of agricultural land along Kenya's coast to grow fruit and vegetables, in return for building a £ 2. 4 billion port close to the Indian Ocean tourist island of Lamu.

It's delegation at Kenya's Lancaster house constitutional conference negotiated for and got federalism adopted into Kenya's independence constitution.

Concern donated more than $ 30, 000 for distribution via cellphone to some of Kenya's poorest people so that they can buy local food.

Jaramogi Ajuma Oginga Odinga ( October 1911 – January 20, 1994 ) was a Luo Chieftain who became a prominent figure in Kenya's struggle for independence.

' All Twitter ' reported, " In a move that might be the most social media friendly we've seen from a politician, Kenya's Finance Minister has asked his Twitter followers for their input on the country's budget – and promises to take their comments into consideration in the next draft .... but this request from Kenya's Finance Minister goes above and beyond political representation to hear directly from the people ....