Mwingi

The Mwingi Water Project was a 2008 church sponsored project to supply clean potable water in the Mwingi District in Kenya. The project drilled 30 wells to provide water for 56,000 people. This effort is one of several ongoing water projects...

In this article: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Kenya

...of 303.828 (1999 census). Its capital is the Mwingi town . Local people are mostly of the Akamba tribe. North of Mwingi town, is the Mwingi National Reserve (formerly Kitui North National Reserve), which borders Meru National Park and Kora...

In this article: Eastern Province, Meru National Park, Kora National Park, and Kenya

Men's favorites: Stephen Loruo, Coon Rapids (personal best, 2:10.46); Grigoriy Andreev, Ufa, Russia (2:11.01); Augustus Kavutu, Mwingi, Kenya (2:11.39). Women's favorites: Michelle Lillienthal, Minneapolis (2:25.51); Elva Dryer,...

In this article: Lorena Ochoa, Colorado, and Alexis Thompson

...than usual. The UN's World Food Programme says it has only $24m of the $300m it needs just to feed hungry Kenyans for the next six months. In Mwingi district, in Kenya's Kamba region, the crops have totally failed. Villagers are surviving...

In this article: World Food Programme, Maize, UN, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Africa

...voted for Kibaki had suspicions. "I'm happy that Kibaki has won the election. I voted for him and wanted him to win," said Macharia Mwingi, 42, a taxi driver in the capital. "But I'm not ruling out election rigging." Earlier Sunday,...

In this article: Mwai Kibaki, Kenya, NPR, Raila Odinga, Democracy, and Allegation

..., Meru , and Embu . In Kenya the Kamba is spoken in four major regions of Kamba Land. These regions are Machakos, Kitui, Makueni and Mwingi. The Machakos variety is considered the standard variety of the four dialects and has been used...

In this article: Machakos, Kenya, Kitui, and Tanzania

...in neighbouring Sudan. Dark accusations circulated that it was the work of certain politicians in cahoots with favoured traders. In Mwingi people scrape a living from the land by farming small fields and keeping livestock. Harvest after...

In this article: Maize, Kenya, Cattle, Cholera, Africa, Climate change, Malaria, Sugar, and Unesco

...in January 2008. He also serves as Chief Commissioner for The Kenya Scouts Association. He was born in Tseikuru, in a remote part of Mwingi District (then part of Kitui District) in Kenya's Eastern Province . Between 1960 and 1967 he...

In this article: Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kenya, and Liberal Democratic Party