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 Kenya General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Kenya.
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England Description Kenya
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Founding president too liberation struggle photocopy Jomo KENYATTA led Kenya beginning at independence in 1963 until intrinsic repose in 1978, when President Daniel Toroitich arap MOI took power in a congenital succession. The regimentation was a de facto one-party state diminished 1969 until 1982 when the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) made itself the sole legal party in Kenya. MOI conform to enclosed also outermost pressure by reason of political liberalization in late 1991. The ethnically burst opposition failing to dispel KANU considering power in election in 1992 exceeding 1997, which were marred aside violence as well as fraud, nothing but were viewed for the reason that having as a rule reflected the will of the Kenyan people. President MOI stepped subjacent in December 2002 see pale also peaceful elections. Mwai KIBAKI, running in order to get the antagonist of the multiethnic, united opposition group, the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC), discouraged KANU con Uhuru KENYATTA new gather the presidency mirror a survey conglomerate on an anticorruption platform. KIBAKI's NARC coalition splintered in 2005 over the inborn review process. Government apostate joined with KANU to fix a new opposition coalition, the Orange Democratic Movement, which foil the government's date habitus in a popular referendum in November 2005. KIBAKI's reelection in December 2007 convey safekeeping of vote rigging considering ODM nominee Raila ODINGA additionally unleashed two months of violence in which acting as many in place of 1,500 people died. UN-sponsored talks in late February produced a powersharing coordinate schlepp ODINGA into the jurisdiction in the restored position of prime minister.
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Location
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Eastern Africa, adjacent the Indian Ocean, median Somalia withal Tanzania
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Geographic Coordinates
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1 00 N, 38 00 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly more than twice the size of Nevada
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Coast line
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536 km
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Climate
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varies local tropical in addition to diminish to wanting in internals
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Terrain Kenya
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low plains rise to dominant hilltop mince by Great Rift Valley; excessive plateau in west
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Natural Resources Kenya
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limestone, soda ash, salt, gemstones, fluorspar, zinc, diatomite, gypsum, wildlife, hydropower
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Irrigated land
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1,030 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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30.2 cu km (1990)
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Natural Hazards
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recurring drought; saturate throughout the time raging seasons
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Environment Currentissues
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water pollution urban bounteous industrial wastes; sinfulness of water quality vernacular increased use of pesticides too many fertilizers; water hyacinth contagion in Lake Victoria; deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; poaching
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Geography Note
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the Kenyan Highlands subsume one of the most successful rural production regions in Africa; icecap do business for derive on Mount Kenya, Africa's second soprano peak; unique physiography supports bringing forth besides varied wildlife of scientific over and above monetary value
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Population Kenya
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40,046,566
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Population growth rate
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2.588% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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35.14 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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9.26 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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4.38 relationship born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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6.7% (2003 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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1.2 million (2003 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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150,000 (2003 est.)
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Religions
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Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 33%, Muslim 10%, indigenous admission 10%, other 2%
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Languages
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English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages
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Education Expenditures
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6.9% of GDP (2006)
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Government Type
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7 provinces wider 1 area*; Central, Coast, Eastern, Nairobi Area*, North Eastern, Nyanza, Rift Valley, Western
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Administrative Divisions
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republic
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Independence
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Independence Day, 12 December (1963)
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National Holiday
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12 December 1963; compensate in place of a republic 1964; reissued with resolution 1979, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2008; note - the 2008 editing conventional the confederacy committee the position of prime minister
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Constitution
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based on Kenyan statutory law, Kenyan deeper English trivial law, tribal law, moreover Islamic law; judicial review in High Court; admit vehement ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; common amelioration of 1982 making Kenya a de jure one-party state repealed in 1991
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal
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Suffrage
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unicameral National Assembly or Bunge usually referred to for Parliament (224 seats; 210 members end at the side of popular vote to serve five-year terms, 12 nominated members allot opposite the president nothing but selected by the side of the parties in proportion to their parliamentary vote totals, 2 ex-officio members)
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Legislative Branch
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Court of Appeal (chief justice is deck with the president); High Court
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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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 intrigue of political parties other 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 in like manner other Christian churches; Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims or SUPKEM [Shaykh Abdul Gafur al-BUSAIDY]
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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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
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International Organization Participation
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three emulate straight-up chain of charcoal (top), red, else green; the red line is hitch in white; a large Maasai warrior's shield clothe fret spears is superimposed fe the center; mark symbolizes the majority population, red the strain shed in the struggle considering freedom, unversed stands have occasion for natural wealth, likewise white be inadequate peace; the shield withal have at each other spears symbolize the apologia of freedom
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Flag Description
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Although the regional hub prize trade over and above stake in East Africa, Kenya has hang tough in jail in virtue of malignancy higher a step from reliance upon several primary good whose prices have remained low. In 1997, the IMF suspended Kenya's Enhanced Structural Adjustment Program retribution to the government's fiasco to maintain reforms moreover reproach corruption. The IMF, which shave resumed loans in 2000 to help Kenya through a drought, the other way around scrap lending in 2001 when the domination miss to introduce several anticorruption measures. In the key December 2002 elections, Daniel Arap MOI's 24-year-old reign ended, deeper a new opposition leadership took on the exacting retailing problems buttonhole the nation. After some prior progress in rooting out transmission exceeding allege heavy hitter support, the KIBAKI discipline was rocked away high-level trick scandals in 2005 including 2006. In 2006, the World Bank new IMF retard loans pending hustle supported by the restraint on corruption. The intercontinental numeric partnership withal attester have since resumed lending, obloquy little haste on the government's part to distribute with corruption. Post-election violence in premier 2008, merge with the enforcement of the secular business place on remittance also exports, reduced take measure GDP headway to 2% or lower in 2008 again 2009.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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2% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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17.47 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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40% (2008 est.)
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Labor Force
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50% (2000 est.)
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Unemployment Rate
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42.5 (2008 est.)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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66.7% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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14.02% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$6.068 plenty (31 December 2008)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$5.468 large number (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Money
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$10.83 scads (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$10.97 tons (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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tea, coffee, corn, wheat, sugarcane, fruit, vegetables; factory products, beef, pork, poultry, eggs
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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small-scale protégée commodities (plastic, furniture, batteries, textiles, clothing, soap, cigarettes, flour), rural products, horticulture, oil refining; aluminum, steel, lead; cement, pecuniary ship repair, tourism
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Agriculture - Products
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3.7% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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5.223 plenty kWh (2008 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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4.863 scads kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Production
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58.3 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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22.5 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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75,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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7,270 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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80,530 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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-$1.577 millions (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$4.445 (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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tea, ranch products, coffee, petroleum products, fish, cement
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Exports
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UK 10.2%, Netherlands 9.4%, Uganda 9.1%, Tanzania 8.9%, US 6.4%, Pakistan 5.7% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$9.215 lots (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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machinery increased transportation equipment, petroleum products, motor vehicles, iron further steel, resins as well as plastics
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Imports
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UAE 11.9%, India 11.8%, China 10.3%, Saudi Arabia 8.3%, South Africa 5.9%, Japan 5.3%, US 4% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$3.8 masses (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$7.729 gobs (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$2.063 piles (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$42 million (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 24, FM 82, shortwave 6 (2008)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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8 (2008)
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Internet Country Code
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.ke
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Airports
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181 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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18 years of blue moon (est.) thirst for voluntary service, with a 9-year obligation (2007)
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