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Baragoi
Bungoma
Busia
Butere
Dadaab
Diani Beach
Eldoret
Embu
Garissa
Gede
Hola
Homa Bay
Isiolo
Kajiado
Kakamega
Kakuma
Kapenguria
Kericho
Kiambu
Kilifi
Kisii
Kisumu
Kitale
Lamu
Langata
Lodwar
Lokichoggio
Loyangalani
Machakos
Malindi
Mandera
Maralal
Marsabit
Meru
Mombasa
Moyale
Mumia's
Muranga (previous name Fort Hall)
Nairobi
Naivasha
Nakuru
Namanga
Nanyuki
Naro Moru
Narok
Nyahururu
Nyeri
Ruiru
Shimoni
Takaungu
Thika
Vihiga
Voi
Wajir
Watamu
Webuye
Wundanyi

Background

Founding president and liberation struggle icon Jomo KENYATTA led Kenya from independence in 1963 until his death in 1978, when President Daniel Toroitich arap MOI took power in a constitutional succession. The country was a de facto one-party state from 1969 until 1982 when the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) made itself the sole legal party in Kenya. MOI acceded to internal and external pressure for political liberalization in late 1991. The ethnically fractured opposition failed to dislodge KANU from power in elections in 1992 and 1997, which were marred by violence and fraud, but were viewed as having generally reflected the will of the Kenyan people. President MOI stepped down in December 2002 following fair and peaceful elections. Mwai KIBAKI, running as the candidate of the multiethnic, united opposition group, the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC), defeated KANU candidate Uhuru KENYATTA and assumed the presidency following a campaign centered on an anticorruption platform. KIBAKI's NARC coalition splintered in 2005 over the constitutional review process. Government defectors joined with KANU to form a new opposition coalition, the Orange Democratic Movement, which defeated the government's draft constitution in a popular referendum in November 2005. KIBAKI's reelection in December 2007 brought charges of vote rigging from ODM candidate Raila ODINGA and unleashed two months of violence in which as many as 1,500 people died. UN-sponsored talks in late February produced a powersharing accord bringing ODINGA into the government in the restored position of prime minister.

Population

40,046,566

Government type

7 provinces and 1 area*; Central, Coast, Eastern, Nairobi Area*, North Eastern, Nyanza, Rift Valley, Western

Administrative divisions

republic

Independence

Independence Day, 12 December (1963)

International organization participation

three equal horizontal bands of black (top), red, and green; the red band is edged in white; a large Maasai warrior's shield covering crossed spears is superimposed at the center; black symbolizes the majority population, red the blood shed in the struggle for freedom, green stands for natural wealth, and white for peace; the shield and crossed spears symbolize the defense of freedom

Economy - overview

Market value of publicly traded shares

small-scale consumer goods (plastic, furniture, batteries, textiles, clothing, soap, cigarettes, flour), agricultural products, horticulture, oil refining; aluminum, steel, lead; cement, commercial ship repair, tourism

Agriculture - products

3.7% (2009 est.)

Industries

5.223 billion kWh (2008 est.)

Industrial production growth rate

4.863 billion kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity - production

58.3 million kWh (2007 est.)

Oil - production

7,270 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Internet country code

3.36 million (2008)

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