* December 20 – The final spike is driven into the Mombasa-Victoria-Uganda Railway in what is now Kisumu, Kenya.

FUM's headquarters is in Richmond, Indiana, and has offices in Kisumu, Kenya.

Mount Elgon is an extinct shield volcano on the border of Uganda and Kenya, north of Kisumu and west of Kitale.

Kisumu is a port city in western Kenya at, with a population of 355, 024 ( 1999 census ).

It is the third largest city in Kenya, the principal city of western Kenya, the immediate former capital of Nyanza Province and the headquarters of Kisumu County.

Currently, Kisumu is one of the fastest growing cities in Kenya.

Kisumu is the location of the Kisumu Impala Sanctuary.

Kit Mikayi, a large rock with three rocks on top, and is located off Kisumu Bondo Road towards Bondo.

Imperial Hotel is a 4 star Hotel in the heart of Kisumu.

The term used to refer to a resident of Kisumu is jakisumo ( plural, jokisumo ).

* Kisumu Town is now the new headquarters of the newly created Kisumu County in the new Counties of Kenya.

Kakamega is 52 km north of Kisumu, the third largest city in Kenya and a port city on Lake Victoria.

Another attraction is the Crying Stone of Ilesi located along the highway towards Kisumu.

The original ships serving the Uganda Railway were built in the United Kingdom as " knock down " ships ; that is, they were bolted together, all the parts marked with numbers, disassembled into thousands of parts, transported in kit form by sea to Mombasa and by rail to Kisumu and reassembled.

is a tugboat built by Bow, McLachlan & Co in 1912 and launched at Kisumu in 1913.

Maseno University is a university based in Maseno, near Kisumu, in Kenya and was founded in 1991.

The University is located in Maseno Township along Kisumu-Busia road, some 25 km from Kisumu City and 400 km west of Nairobi.

The Main campus is located along Kisumu-Busia road, while the Kisumu campus is located in Kisumu City.

When the first stage of the Uganda Railway was completed in 1901, the railhead was at Kisumu, 12 hours journey from Port Bell by ship.

Ferries brought goods by lake between Port Bell and Kisumu.

Kisumu was identified by the British explorers in early 1898 as an alternative railway terminus and port for the Uganda railway, then under construction.

Kisumu was ideally located on the shores of Lake Victoria at the cusp of the Winam Gulf, at the end of the caravan trail from Pemba, Mombasa, Malindi and had the potential for connection to the whole of the Lake region by steamers.

Douglas C-47 plane operated by South African Air Force crashed into Lake Victoria soon after taking off from Kisumu Airport on July 11, 1945.

was built for the Imperial British East Africa Company in 1890 by Bow, McLachlan and Company at Paisley in Scotland but not launched at Kisumu until 1900.

RMS Victoria was built in in 1959 by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Scotstoun and reassembled for the East African Railways and Harbours Corporation ( EAR & H ) ship at Kisumu in 1961.

He was a member of the National Assembly for Kisumu and a cabinet minister, rising to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation by 1990.

Later that day Ouko travelled to his country residence, a farm in Koru ( some 300 km from Nairobi ) near Kisumu, accompanied by his driver and a bodyguard.

Bush ( Troon did accept however that the " factual basis " for the alleged row on the Washington trip was " somewhat tenuous " and based on " hearsay "); that Ouko had been involved in a dispute with Biwott over the cancellation of a project to build a molasses plant at Kisumu ( in Ouko ’ s constituency ); and that Ouko was preparing a report on high level political corruption in the Government of Kenya in relation to the Kisumu Molasses Project ( which by implication named Biwott ).

The basis for Troon ’ s theory was thus allegations passed to Scotland Yard at the direction of President Daniel arap Moi and made by a Domenico Airaghi and a Marianne Briner-Mattern ( who made a witness statement to Troon on 22 March 1990 ), directors of BAK International, a company based in Switzerland that had tendered to Ouko when he was Minister for Industry to re-start the Molasses Project in Kisumu.

The process and timescale by and over which the decision was taken to bring the Kisumu Molasses project to a halt would also seem to remove it as a likely cause for a dispute in 1990.

Kisumu Hotel is a property that was acquired by the University in 2004.

The first specimen, a partial jaw discovered in 1909 by a gold prospector at Koru, near Kisumu in western Kenya, was also the oldest fossil hominoid known until recently, and the first fossil mammal ever found in sub-Saharan Africa.

From there they made their way across by rail to Kisumu and then by foot to Kaimosi and set up a mission there on August 17.

In 1967 EARH made harbour improvements at Kisumu on the Kenyan shore of Lake Victoria by scuttling the disused ferry to form a breakwater.

* Kisumu Airport, a public airport serving Kisumu, Kenya

Common domestic destinations from Wilson Airport include Kisumu Airport, Mombasa International Airport and Eldoret International Airport.

Its shores are dotted with cities and towns, including Kisumu, Kisii, and Homa Bay in Kenya ; Kampala, Jinja, and Entebbe in Uganda ; and Bukoba, Mwanza and Msoma in Tanzania.

On Friday, December 20, 1901, the railway line reached the Kisumu pier, with the centre adopting a new name, Port Florence.

In the early sixties, very little development took place in Kisumu, with an acute shortage realized in dwelling houses, shops and offices.

As part of the visit, Bundchen spent a day with a family in the village of Kisumu and helped them tend to tasks such as carrying firewood to their hut – while also making sure to highlight the dangers of using firewood inside homes that do not have energy.

Kenya Railways ' main line links Kisumu with the port of Mombasa on the Indian Ocean.

Witnesses also spoke of a dispute with local politicians and allegations of fraud in Kisumu Town Council.

Kisumu ( Kenya ) and Ndola ( Zambia ), in Central / East Africa, were selected as the towns with high HIV prevalence, while the low-prevalence towns in West Africa were Cotonou ( Benin ) and Yaoundé ( Cameroon ).