[198] However, English, Kiswahili, and mathematics are compulsory subjects.
[210], Kenya has been a dominant force in women's volleyball within Africa, with both the clubs and the national team winning various continental championships in the past decade. There are about 3,000 smallholder irrigation schemes covering a total area of 47,000 ha. [75][77], The elections of 1992 marked the beginning of multiparty politics after more than 25 years of rule by KANU. Uhuru Kenyatta won in a disputed election result, leading to a petition by the opposition leader, Raila Odinga. Retired Olympic and Commonwealth Games champion Kipchoge Keino helped usher in Kenya's ongoing distance dynasty in the 1970s and was followed by Commonwealth Champion Henry Rono's spectacular string of world record performances. [45] By the 15th-century, Portuguese voyager Duarte Barbosa claimed that "Mombasa is a place of great traffic and has a good harbour in which there are always moored small craft of many kinds and also great ships, both of which are bound from Sofala and others which come from Cambay and Melinde and others which sail to the island of Zanzibar."[46]. [5] Kenya's capital and largest city is Nairobi, while its oldest city and first capital is the coastal city of Mombasa. It was said to be founded in the 10th century by Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi,[40] a Persian Sultan from Shiraz in southern Iran. [162] The Ministry of Gender and Child Affairs employed 400 child protection officers in 2009. A Patent Pending People Search Process. [152] The state-owned Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), established in 1997 under the name of Kenya Power Company, handles the generation of electricity, while Kenya Power handles the electricity transmission and distribution system in the country. Kenya is usually classified as a frontier market or occasionally an emerging market, but it is not one of the least developed countries. Social star who first gained fame for her self-titled channel, where she posted lifestyle vlogs, friend tags, challenges, and reactions for her more than 6 million loyal subscribers. Previous research on early hominids is particularly identified with Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey, who were responsible for the preliminary archaeological research at Olorgesailie and Hyrax Hill. Opposition politicians, human rights groups, and nine Western countries criticised the security bill, arguing that it infringed on democratic freedoms. While travelling with a Kamba caravan led by the legendary long-distance trader Chief Kivoi, Krapf spotted the mountain peak and asked what it was called. At the launch in March 2013, the Secretary of the Ministry of Planning, National Development, and Vision 2030 emphasised that climate would be a central issue in the renewed Medium-Term Plan that would be launched in the coming months. Kenya won several medals during the Beijing Olympics: six gold, four silver, and four bronze, making it Africa's most successful nation in the 2008 Olympics. It did not come into widespread official use during the early colonial period, when the country was referred to as the East African Protectorate. View the profiles of people named Kenia Rios. Kenia. [141], A consortium led by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has had some success in helping farmers grow new pigeon pea varieties instead of maize, in particularly dry areas. Evidence was found in 2018, dating to about 320,000 years ago, at the Kenyan site of Olorgesailie, of the early emergence of modern behaviours including: long-distance trade networks (involving goods such as obsidian), the use of pigments, and the possible making of projectile points. [194] According to a 2008–09 survey by the Kenyan government, the total fertility rate was 4.6% and the contraception usage rate among married women was 46%. Coordinates: 1°N 38°E / 1°N 38°E / 1; 38. But there are some things that we must admit we don't share. Horticultural produce and tea are the main growth sectors and the two most valuable of all of Kenya's exports. The Supreme Court overturned the election results in what became a landmark ruling in Africa and one of the very few in the world in which the results of a presidential elections were annulled. [164], Kenya had a population of approximately 48 million people in January 2017. Primarily consisting of a mixture of Kiswahili and English, it is an example of linguistic code-switching. Notable prehistoric sites in the interior of Kenya include the (possibly archaeoastronomical) site Namoratunga on the west side of Lake Turkana and the walled settlement of Thimlich Ohinga in Migori County.
[184] The only Jewish synagogue in the country is located in Nairobi. Kibaki was re-elected in highly contested elections marred by political and ethnic violence. Kenya has not attained the level of investment and efficiency in agriculture that can guarantee food security, and coupled with resulting poverty (53% of the population lives below the poverty line), a significant portion of the population regularly starves and is heavily dependent on food aid. She has a pet dog named Octavio. (1982). [78] In the next five years, many political alliances were formed in preparation for the next elections. [26][27][28], The first inhabitants of present-day Kenya were hunter-gatherer groups, akin to the modern Khoisan speakers. This was followed by the building of the Uganda Railway passing through the country.