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UN Demands Suspension Of Iran Uranium Facility...a report released today. More >> Charity Auction: Paper Football Signed By Ban Fetches $200k A street football from the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, made from paper, wrapped in plastic bags and tied with string - and signed by Secretary... In this article: Iran, United Nations, IAEA, Uranium, Ban Ki-moon, Climate change, Copenhagen, Barack Obama, and Pakistan |
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AP Online | 3 days ago
Freed foreign journalists in Kenyan hospital
...Somali capital, Mogadishu, in a chartered plane early Thursday. Later in the day Lindhout and Brennan arrived in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and were taken to a hospital. "They are receiving the best possible care they can," Ross Hynes,...
In this article: Somalia, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, Mogadishu, Stephen Harper, Kenya, Reporters Without Borders, and Mohamed Siad Barre
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Reuters | 3 days ago
FACTBOX: Foreigners held in Africa
...source said on Thursday. Earlier freelance journalists Amanda Lindhout, a Canadian, and Nigel Brennan, an Australian, arrived in Nairobi. They had been freed on Wednesday after being held hostage in Somalia for 15 months. Here are some...
In this article: Darfur, Africa, Sudan, Mogadishu, Somalia, Mali, and U.N.
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Somali pirates say Greek ship Ariana released
...coastal town of Haradheere. "It will be sailing away in the next few hours, I hope." A senior diplomat at the Ukrainian embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, said the report was incorrect, but gave no other details. Heavily armed Somali pirates...
In this article: Mogadishu, Middle East, Horn of Africa, and Nairobi, Kenya
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washingtonpost.com | 3 days ago
Freed foreign journalists arrive in Kenya
In this article: Mogadishu, Somalia, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, Kenya, Reporters Without Borders, Mohamed Siad Barre, and Anna Bligh
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Canadian and Australian journalists held in Somalia arrive in Kenya
...tortured during their captivity and feared being sold to hard-line al Shabaab rebels. They made no comment on their arrival in Nairobi, where they were whisked away in cars with diplomatic plates. One of their jailers, who gave his name...
In this article: Somalia, Kenya, and Sharif Ahmed
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Telegraph.co.uk - Travel | 4 days ago
Trading places: the merchants of Nairobi
Inspired by a visit to the outskirts of Nairobi in Kenya a few years ago, the photographer Steve Bloom felt compelled to return and capture life among the outer districts and slums of the city.
In this article: Kenya
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Africa's largest wind farm set to emerge from Kenyan desert
...Africa, the continent's largest economy, hopes to complete 18 wind farms by 2014. Kenya's first wind farm, in the Ngong Hills outside Nairobi, began feeding into the national grid in August. Additional sites are being scouted near Lake...
In this article: Africa, Kenya, Fossil fuel, Climate change, and Lake Turkana
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SPIEGEL ONLINE - International | November 18, 2009
The Sisyphus from Nairobi: How the UN's Climate Czar Wants to Save the World
...an environmentalist wants to be seen in. Stein heads the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), a UN agency with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, a staff of 500 and an annual budget of about $200 million ( 134 million). He is one of the...
In this article: UNEP, UN, Copenhagen, Kofi Annan, The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Health Organization, and Istanbul
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Nairobi (pronounced: /naɪˈroʊbi/) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi Province. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is surrounded by several expanding villa suburbs.
Founded in 1899 as a simple rail depot on the railway linking Mombasa to Uganda, the town quickly grew to become the capital of British East Africa in 1907 and eventually the capital of a free Kenyan republic in 1963. During Kenya's colonial period, the city became a center for the colony's coffee, tea and sisal industry. Nairobi is also the capital of the Nairobi Province and of the Nairobi District. The city lies on the Nairobi River, in the south of the nation, and has an elevation of 1795 m above sea-level.
Nairobi is the most populous city in East Africa, with a current estimated population of about 3 million. According to the 1999 Census, in the administrative area of Nairobi, 2,143,254 inhabitants lived within 696 km2. Nairobi is currently the 13th largest city in Africa.
Nairobi is now one of the most prominent cities in Africa politically and financially. Home to many companies and organisations, including the United Nations Environment Programme and the UN Office in Africa, Nairobi is established as a hub for business and culture. The Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) is one of the largest in Africa, ranked fourth in terms of trading volume and capable of making 10 million trades a day. The Globalisation and World Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC) defines Nairobi as a prominent social centre.
- Name:
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 1899
- Total Area (km):
- 696
- Elevation (ft):
- 5450
- Time Zone:
- EAT
- Website:
- http://www.nairobicity.org/
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