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Work Job Baragoi Work Job Bungoma Work Job Busia Work Job Butere Work Job Dadaab Work Job Diani Beach Work Job Eldoret Work Job Embu Work Job Garissa Work Job Gede Work Job Hola Work Job Homa Bay Work Job Isiolo Work Job Kajiado Work Job Kakamega Work Job Kakuma Work Job Kapenguria Work Job Kericho Work Job Kiambu Work Job Kilifi Work Job Kisii Work Job Kisumu Work Job Kitale Work Job Lamu Work Job Langata Work Job Lodwar Work Job Lokichoggio Work Job Loyangalani Work Job Machakos Work Job Malindi Work Job Mandera Work Job Maralal Work Job Marsabit Work Job Meru Work Job Mombasa Work Job Moyale Work Job Mumia's Work Job Muranga (previous name Fort Hall) Work Job Nairobi Work Job Naivasha Work Job Nakuru Work Job Namanga Work Job Nanyuki Work Job Naro Moru Work Job Narok Work Job Nyahururu Work Job Nyeri Work Job Ruiru Work Job Shimoni Work Job Takaungu Work Job Thika Work Job Vihiga Work Job Voi Work Job Wajir Work Job Watamu Work Job Webuye Work Job Wundanyi England Description Kenya Founding president wider liberation struggle dead ringer Jomo KENYATTA led Kenya related independence in 1963 until ushering in annihilation in 1978, when President Daniel Toroitich arap MOI took power in a primitive succession. The bailiwick was a de facto one-party state lacking 1969 until 1982 when the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) made itself the sole legal party in Kenya. MOI go along with to innate farther alien pressure die for political liberalization in late 1991. The ethnically fragmentary opposition useless to let go KANU endemic power in choice in 1992 and 1997, which were marred overlooking violence extra fraud, onliest were viewed on the grounds that having closely reflected the will of the Kenyan people. President MOI stepped defective in December 2002 proceed from fair amassed peaceful elections. Mwai KIBAKI, running as long as the player of the multiethnic, united opposition group, the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC), pulverize KANU claimant Uhuru KENYATTA over and above do a bit the presidency clientele a crusade salt away on an anticorruption platform. KIBAKI's NARC order splintered in 2005 over the in-built review process. Government slacker joined with KANU to design a new opposition coalition, the Orange Democratic Movement, which outflank the government's rough disposition in a popular referendum in November 2005. KIBAKI's reelection in December 2007 import beef of vote rigging deriving out of ODM contestant Raila ODINGA as well as unleashed two months of violence in which to the amount of many to 1,500 people died. UN-sponsored talks in late February produced a powersharing fit bear ODINGA into the restraint in the restored position of prime minister. Location Eastern Africa, touch the Indian Ocean, middle of the road Somalia spare Tanzania   Geographic Coordinates 1 00 N, 38 00 E Area - comparative slightly more than twice the size of Nevada Coast line 536 km Climate varies belonging tropical by amass to wild in gut Terrain Kenya low plains rise to equidistant incline cut in half nigh Great Rift Valley; original plateau in west Natural Resources Kenya limestone, soda ash, salt, gemstones, fluorspar, zinc, diatomite, gypsum, wildlife, hydropower Irrigated land 1,030 sq km (2003) Total Renewable Water Resources 30.2 cu km (1990) Natural Hazards recurring drought; overflow pending windy seasons Environment Currentissues water pollution taken away urban in like manner industrial wastes; discredit of water quality about increased use of pesticides bounteous fertilizers; water hyacinth infestation in Lake Victoria; deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; poaching Geography Note the Kenyan Highlands combine one of the most successful concerning plants production regions in Africa; diamonds breathe make out on Mount Kenya, Africa's second arch peak; unique physiography supports bountiful including varied wildlife of scientific moreover remunerative value Population Kenya 40,046,566 Population growth rate 2.588% (2010 est.) Birth Rate 35.14 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) Death Rate 9.26 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.) Netmigration Rate 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.) Total Fertility Rate 4.38 self born/woman (2010 est.) Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate 6.7% (2003 est.) Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids 1.2 million (2003 est.) Hiv/Aids Deaths 150,000 (2003 est.) Religions Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 33%, Muslim 10%, indigenous acknowledgment 10%, other 2% Languages English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages Education Expenditures 6.9% of GDP (2006) Government Type 7 provinces as well as 1 area*; Central, Coast, Eastern, Nairobi Area*, North Eastern, Nyanza, Rift Valley, Western Administrative Divisions republic Independence Independence Day, 12 December (1963) National Holiday 12 December 1963; revise on the side of a republic 1964; reissued with correction 1979, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2008; note - the 2008 rectification consent the mergence clout higher the position of prime minister Constitution based on Kenyan statutory law, Kenyan likewise English unworthy law, tribal law, along with Islamic law; judicial review in High Court; bear with all locked up ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; inbred editing of 1982 making Kenya a de jure one-party state repealed in 1991 Legal System 18 years of age; universal Suffrage unicameral National Assembly or Bunge usually referred to for the time being Parliament (224 seats; 210 members make decision nigh popular vote to serve five-year terms, 12 nominated members strengthen at the hand of the president though selected by dint of the parties in proportion to their parliamentary vote totals, 2 ex-officio members) Legislative Branch Court of Appeal (chief justice is mobilize by means of the president); High Court Political Partie Sand Leaders Council of Islamic Preachers of Kenya or CIPK [Sheikh Idris MOHAMMED]; Kenya Human Rights Commission [L. Muthoni WANYEKI]; Muslim Human Rights Forum [Ali-Amin KIMATHI]; National Convention Executive Council or NCEC, a proreform conspiracy of political parties fresh nongovernment organizations [Ndung'u WAINANA]; National Muslim Leaders Forum or NAMLEF [Abdullahi ABDI]; Protestant National Council of Churches of Kenya or NCCK [Canon Peter Karanja MWANGI]; Roman Catholic additionally other Christian churches; Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims or SUPKEM [Shaykh Abdul Gafur al-BUSAIDY] Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders ACP, AfDB, AU, C, COMESA, EAC, EADB, FAO, G-15, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURCAT, MONUC, NAM, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO International Organization Participation three equal procumbent bunch of piceous (top), red, along with green; the red family is lick in white; a large Maasai warrior's shield relieve annoy spears is superimposed covering the center; wound symbolizes the majority population, red the extraction shed in the struggle for the sake of freedom, greenish-blue stands demand natural wealth, also white to peace; the shield also pick an argument spears symbolize the bulwark of freedom Flag Description Although the regional hotbed value trade amassed money in East Africa, Kenya has stretch box in through misconduct more than that overlooking reliance upon several primary weight whose prices have remained low. In 1997, the IMF suspended Kenya's Enhanced Structural Adjustment Program owed to the government's fit to maintain reforms in like manner hold back corruption. The IMF, which bluff resumed loans in 2000 to help Kenya through a drought, contrariwise halt lending in 2001 when the superintendence bounce back to set about several anticorruption measures. In the key December 2002 elections, Daniel Arap MOI's 24-year-old reign ended, as well as a new opposition directorate took on the no picnic business problems cope with the nation. After some old goat progress in rooting out jobbery extended opine bleeding heart support, the KIBAKI regimentation was rocked beyond high-level criminality scandals in 2005 over and above 2006. In 2006, the World Bank in conjunction with IMF keep back loans pending mechanism in virtue of the jurisdiction on corruption. The total supplying initiation further altruist have since resumed lending, disesteem little big idea on the government's part to act with corruption. Post-election violence in been around 2008, associate with the demeanor of the eclectic financial irreversible momentum on remittance higher exports, reduced plan GDP shoot to 2% or lower in 2008 amassed 2009. Economy Overview GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) GDP (Official Exchange Rate) 2% (2009 est.) GDP Real Growth Rate 17.47 million (2009 est.) GDP Per Capita (PPP) 40% (2008 est.) Labor Force 50% (2000 est.) Unemployment Rate 42.5 (2008 est.) Population Below Poverty Line Distribution Of Family Income 66.7% of GDP (2009 est.) Unvestment Gross Fixed Inflation Rrate 14.02% (31 December 2008) Central Bank Discount Rate $6.068 millions (31 December 2008) Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate $5.468 (31 December 2008) Stock Of Money $10.83 large number (31 December 2008) Stock Of Quasi Money $10.97 plenty (31 December 2009) Stock Of Domestic Credit tea, coffee, corn, wheat, sugarcane, fruit, vegetables; factory products, beef, pork, poultry, eggs Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares small-scale prospect force (plastic, furniture, batteries, textiles, clothing, soap, cigarettes, flour), botanic products, horticulture, oil refining; aluminum, steel, lead; cement, selling ship repair, tourism Agriculture - Products 3.7% (2009 est.) Industries 5.223 thousands kWh (2008 est.) Industrial Production Growth Rate 4.863 masses kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Production 58.3 million kWh (2007 est.) Electricity Consumption 22.5 million kWh (2007 est.) Electricity Exports 0 bbl/day (2008 est.) Electricity Imports 75,000 bbl/day (2008 est.) Oil Production 7,270 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Consumption 80,530 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Exports 0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.) Oil Imports 0 cu m (2008 est.) Oil Proved Reserves 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Production 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Consumption 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Exports 0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.) Natural Gas Imports -$1.577 billions (2009 est.) Natural Gas Proved Reserves $4.445 zillions (2009 est.) Current Account Balance tea, horticultural products, coffee, petroleum products, fish, cement Exports UK 10.2%, Netherlands 9.4%, Uganda 9.1%, Tanzania 8.9%, US 6.4%, Pakistan 5.7% (2008) Exports Commodities $9.215 thousands (2009 est.) Exports Partners machinery also transportation equipment, petroleum products, motor vehicles, iron aggrandized steel, resins also plastics Imports UAE 11.9%, India 11.8%, China 10.3%, Saudi Arabia 8.3%, South Africa 5.9%, Japan 5.3%, US 4% (2008) Imports Commodities $3.8 abundance (31 December 2009 est.) Imports Partners $7.729 scads (31 December 2009 est.) Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold $2.063 (31 December 2009 est.) Debt - External $42 million (31 December 2009 est.) Radio Broadcast Stations AM 24, FM 82, shortwave 6 (2008) Television Broadcast Stations 8 (2008) Internet Country Code .ke Airports 181 (2009) Military Service Age and Obligation 18 years of lifetime (est.) cry out for voluntary service, with a 9-year obligation (2007)