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.

Many are of aristocratic descent and still continue to wield significant influence, especially over Kenya's political elite.

The company operates and maintains the infrastructure over which Kenya's various internet service providers operate.

New interest in Kenya's natural resources has attracted over $ 1 billion dollars of investment from Chinese firms.

Kenya's World Cup success was rewarded with a spot in a quadrangular tournament at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium against Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, but they lost all three of their games.

The launch of the fund seeks to address many of the defining challenges facing Kenya's national economy like unemployment, particularly among youths.

As Carol Polsgrove has shown in Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause, Padmore and his allies in the 1930s and 1940s -- among them James, Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, the Gold Coast's Kwame Nkrumah and South Africa's Peter Abrahams -- saw publishing as a strategy for political change.

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.

Many work in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, as watchmen, while it is also popular to go to Kenya's coastal resorts where some work ; others sell spears and beaded ornaments.

* 1953 – Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers.

Jomo Kenyatta ( c. 1894 – 1978 ), who became Kenya's first prime minister in 1963, wrote in 1930:

Dholuo language of the Luo, Kenya's third largest ethnicity after the Niger – Congo Kikuyu and Luhya ).

Margaret served as mayor of Nairobi between 1970 – 76 and then as Kenya's ambassador to the United Nations from 1976-86.

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

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.

Kenyatta is the son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president ( 1964 – 1978 ).

' 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 ....

In Berlin, Meseret was leading the 2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10, 000 metres until the last 50 metres when her legs appeared to dramatically tie up, handing the gold medal to Kenya's Linet Masai and was passed by three other athletes, finishing with a time of 30: 52. 37.

The novel weaves several stories together during the state of emergency in Kenya's struggle for independence ( 1952 – 1959 ), focusing on the quiet Mugo, whose life is ruled by a dark secret.

Joseph Zuzarte Murumbi ( 1911 – 1990 ) was Kenya's second Vice-President from May 1965 until December 1966.

Michael Kijana Wamalwa ( 25 November 1944 – 23 August 2003 ) was a Kenyan politician and, at the time of his death, Kenya's Vice-President.

As a reaction to their exclusion from political representation, the Kikuyu people, the most subject to pressure by the settlers, founded in 1921 Kenya's first African political protest movement, the Young Kikuyu Association, led by Harry Thuku.

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.

An increasingly significant portion of Kenya's foreign inflows is from remittances by non-resident Kenyans who work in the US, Middle East, Europe, Asia and Antarctica.

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

Moi skillfully exploited Kenya's mix of ethnic tensions in these contests, with the ever present fear of the smaller tribes being dominated by the larger tribes.

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.

Opposition supporters saw the result as a plot by Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe, Kenya's largest, to keep power by any means. Feeling cheated and extremely bitter, and also fueled by other long standing perceived grievances, the tribes that lost the election could not contemplate five years without political power and anti-Kikuyu sentiment swelled.

The president has also overseen a reduction of Kenya's dependence on aid by western donors ( which still remains significant though ), with the country being increasingly funded by internally generated resources, tax revenue collection having grown tremendously during his term, and also by increasing investment, grants and loans by non-western countries, mainly Japan, People's Republic of China and the Middle East, and to a lessor extent investment by South African, Libyan and Nigerian corporations, and even Iran.

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.

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.

On the lower southern portion of the Gedo region is red sandy flat land, running from the Bardera District on the Juba Valley, all the way west to El Wak town on the border with Kenya's North Eastern Province, a district mainly populated by Somalis through the ages.

The top female finisher was Britain's Paula Radcliffe in a time of 2: 23: 10, beating Kenya's Susan Chepkemei by 4 seconds, the closest finish in the history of this race.

The Lake Turkana Wind Power consortium ( LTWP ) plans to provide 300 MW of clean power to Kenya's national electricity grid by tapping the unique wind conditions around the lake.

Mombasa Island is a 5 km by 3 km coral outcrop located on Kenya's coast on the Indian Ocean, which is connected to the mainland by a causeway.

The first dismissal " hit wicket " in international Twenty20 took place on 12 September 2007, in an ICC World Twenty20 match between Kenya and New Zealand, when New Zealand's Mark Gillespie pitched a ball just short of a length which swung back into Kenya's David Obuya from outside off stump and pushed him back into his crease, causing him to lose his balance and tread on his stumps.

Due to the quick change in profile of the rustic tree lodge, National Geographic ran an article A New Look at Kenya's " Treetops " in October, 1956.

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.

Komen first appeared in the senior ranks in 1994 when he won a place on Kenya's 10, 000m team for the 1994 Commonwealth Games, later that same year helping pace Moses Kiptanui to a 5, 000m record.

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.

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.

In re-engineering IFMIS, the Ministry aimed to put Kenya's financial and economic information in a format that was accessible from an online platform which would radically improve public expenditure management under the Ministry of Finance.

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.

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.

Around this time too, she visited Kenya's sprawling slum at Mathare 4A, Kasarani District and virtually pitied Mathare 4A primary school, which had been invaded and harassed by squatters.

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 2008, he headed a study for the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya, which focused on post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from Kenya's election violence.

The use of four different names and two addresses in three years for the various entities of ' BAK ', the company through which Airaghi and Briner-Mattern tendered for the Molasses Project, was also unknown to Troon at the time of his investigation although Dalmas Otieno, Kenya's Minister of Industry, gave evidence to Troon that ‘ BAK ’ was ultimately excluded from the Molasses Project because it was incompetent and in breach of contract.

Kenya's social enterprises include M-Pesa, which facilitated economic transactions via mobile phone.

He narrated the Echo of the Elephants films, which followed scientist Cynthia Moss's and cameraman Martyn Colbeck's lengthy study of an African elephant herd in Kenya's Amboseli National Park.

Vihiga bears the same name as its district, Vihiga District, which is one of the eight districts in Kenya's Western Province.