Kenya

The Republic of Kenya is a nation located in East Africa with a southeastern border on the shores of the Indian Ocean. Kenya is bordered by five other African nations: Uganda, Somalia, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Sudan.

In April 2009, a coalition of women's organizations known as G-10 called on Kenya's women to boycott the bedroom. The sex strike was held in order to protest political gridlock in the strained government coalition led by President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Wives, single women and sex workers were all asked to join the demonstration. Odinga's wife, Ida Odinga, supported the action.CNN.com: Kenyan women ban sex over political reform (April 30, 2009)

1. Capital: Nairobi
2. Government: Republic
3. Languages spoken: English and Swahili
4. Currency: Kenyan shilling (KES)
5. Country code: 254
6. Time zone: EAT (GMT + 3 hrs)
7. Nairobi airport code: NBO
8. Inhabited by a Cushitic tribe around 2000 B.C.
9. Population: 37,953,840 (2008 est.) CIA: The World Factbook: Kenya
10. Climate: Warm desert to warm semi-arid
11. Bordered by: Uganda, Somalia, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sudan and the Indian Ocean

Excavations in Kenya's Rift Valley have discovered the remains of human ancestors more than one million years old, and many paleontologists believe that it was from this area that humans eventually evolved and spread out across the globe. Politically, Kenya achieved its independence from the United Kingdom (who had referred to the area as British East Africa) in December 1963, and Jomo Kenyatta, a former rebel leader, became the nation's first President.

Kenya is home to Nairobi National Park and populations of African wildlife including wildebeest, giraffes, rhinoceroses, leopards, lions, and elephants. Nairobi is the capital of Kenya and East Africa's major transportation hub and population center. The highest mountain in Kenya, Mount Kenya, is over 15,000 feet high and has glaciers at the top.

• BBC News: Kenya News
• Daily Nation: Keyna News
• Google News: Kenya
• Official News Site: Kenya Broadcasting Cooperation
• Business Daily: Kenya Business News
• The Standard: Kenya News
• UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Humanitarian News and Analysis
• Guardian Unlimited: Kenya Special Reports
• The New York Times: Brutal Split in the Kenyan Countryside (January 27, 2008)
  • "In many places, Kenya seems to be sliding back toward the chaos that exploded Dec. 30, when election results were announced and the incumbent president, Mwai Kibaki, was declared the winner over Raila Odinga, the top opposition leader, despite widespread evidence of vote rigging."
• Reuters: Up to 1,000 killed in Kenya crisis: Odinga (January 7, 2008)

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• WorldAtlas.com: Map of Kenya, Africa

• SouthTravels: Weather and Climate in Kenya

• Kenyalogy: Kenya Geography

• KE Adventure Travel: Kenya Geography