Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, formerly called Embakasi Airport and Nairobi International Airport, is Kenya's largest aviation facility, and the busiest airport in East Africa.

Kenyatta airport is located in Embakasi, a suburb to the south-east of Nairobi.

Boeing 707 # 707-320C | Boeing 707-338C G-BDLM of British Caledonian, Caledonian's successor, at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport | Nairobi Embakasi in February 1976

The delivery of the first Boeing 767 ( after a leased 767-200 registered CC-CEX ) broke a world record when it flew 17 hours and 22 minutes non-stop from Boeing's factory in Seattle to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi on its way to Brunei.

Its main bases were London Gatwick Airport and Entebbe International Airport, with hubs at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Dubai International Airport and Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.

Kisumu is served by Kisumu Airport, with regular daily flights to Nairobi and elsewhere.

* November 20 – Lufthansa Flight 540, a Boeing 747-130, stalls and crashes just after takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 of the 157 people on board.

As the aircraft was making its takeoff from runway 24 at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, the pilots felt a buffeting vibration.

Wilson Airport,, is located in Nairobi County, Nairobi District, in Nairobi Province, in the city of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya and the largest metropolitan center in that country.

Airkenya and other small airlines use Wilson Airport for scheduled domestic passenger services, instead of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the main airport in Nairobi.

As a result faster check-in times and fewer flight delays, as compared to Nairobi International Airport, Wilson Airport is commonly used by business executives for both domestic and International travel.

* Location of Nairobi Wilson Airport At Google Maps

Ndola Airport has scheduled domestic services to Lusaka and an international service to Johannesburg and Nairobi.

* After being closed to international travel since the 2002 eruption of the volcano, the Goma International Airport now accepts commercial charter flights and also a passenger line travels from Nairobi to Goma.

( In the graveyard at Nairobi he had been shown the graves of thirty-four big game hunters killed hunting the animals he was attempting to lasso.

In 2007, the Forum was hosted in Nairobi ( Kenya ).

On 1 April 1902, 3 KAR moved its headquarters from Mombasa to Nairobi, and together with 4 KAR and 5 KAR, was used by the British colonial government in expeditions against those who resisted British rule.

On 1 March 1930 the unit was once again reconstituted, presented with their colours and stationed in Nairobi.

The embassy in Nairobi was established December 12, 1963 — Kenya ’ s independence day — with Laurence C. Vass as chargé d ' affaires ad interim pending the appointment of an ambassador.

Ever since, relations between the two nations have been warm ; with both countries having had discussed previously in the Pakistan-Kenya Joint Ministerial Commission session which was hosted in Nairobi in 2004, about boosting bilateral trade and economic relations.

After waking up from a coma in a Nairobi hospital, she finished writing the script there, but was soon thoroughly thwarted by uncooperative locals, the Suez Canal crisis, and bad weather ( only test shots were ever made ).

A major success for Tanzania was the Moshi coffee auctions that attracted international buyers after the annual Nairobi auctions.

One of the deadly 1998 U. S. embassy bombings occurred in Dar Es Salaam ; the other was in Nairobi, Kenya.

It was founded as a result of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in June 1972 and has its headquarters in the Gigiri neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya.

In France he was a professor at the University of Paris and then worked for UNESCO in Paris and Nairobi.

Outstanding amongst them was Maalim Mtondo, a Tanganyikan credited with being the first Muslim missionary to Nairobi.

By 2006, the water levels in Lake Victoria had reached an 80-year low, and Daniel Kull, an independent hydrologist living in Nairobi, Kenya, calculated that Uganda was releasing about twice as much water as is allowed under the agreement, and was primarily responsible for recent drops in the lake's level.

The seventh World Social Forum was held in Nairobi, Kenya in January 2007.

The 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya in particular was criticized as a " NGO fair " because of how many NGOs attended, crowding out less formal groups of activists.

A popular recurring sketch was The Nairobi Trio, three derby-hatted apes miming mechanically and rhythmically to the tune of Robert Maxwell's " Solfeggio ".

Much of this research was begun at Makerere University in Uganda in the early 1970s in the swamps on the edge of Lake Victoria and continued in Kenya ( University of Nairobi ) on Lake Naivasha.

Richard Leakey, President Arap Moi and the WMCD made the international news headlines when a stock pile of 12 tons of ivory was burned in 1989 in Nairobi National Park.

In October 2006, Moi was found, by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, to have taken a bribe from a Pakistani businessman to award monopoly of duty free shops at the country's international airport in Mombasa and Nairobi.

* On 4 Dec 2000, flight from Brussels to Bujumbura, Burundi, en-route to Nairobi, Kenya, was struck by machine gun fire, as it approached Bujumbura, injuring a passenger and crew member.

The plane, which was due to fly on to Nairobi and return to Brussels, landed safely but did not continue the flight.

In 1963, Kibaki was elected as Member of Parliament for Donholm Constituency ( subsequently called Bahati and now known as Makadara ) in Nairobi.

In 1974, Kibaki, facing serious competition for his Doonholm Constituency seat from a Mrs. Jael Mbogo, whom he had only narrowly and controversially beaten for the seat in the 1969 elections, moved his political base from Nairobi to his rural home, Othaya, where he was subsequently elected as Member of Parliament.

Located in Nairobi Village, this climate-controlled indoor exhibit opened in 1993 and displays tropical African birds and insects.

The next year it opened a second branch in Kenya, in Nairobi, and in 1956 it opened a branch in Dar-es-Salaam.

On 28 July 1941 the headquarters closed in Ethiopia, transferring to Nairobi, where it opened again on 20 August.

Officially opened in 1946, Nairobi National Park was the first national park established in Kenya.

* In 1999 BAPS opened its first traditional Hindu Mandir in Africa – in Nairobi, Kenya.

A home for six lowland gorillas and nine chimpanzees located in Nairobi, opened in 1992.