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96 unusual facts about Nairobi


1982 Kenyan coup d'état attempt

He had also managed to steal some military communication equipment which he had set up at a private house in Nairobi which was located a few kilometres from the city center.

2006 United Nations Climate Change Conference

The 2006 United Nations Climate Change Conference took place between November 6 and 17, 2006 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Abdullah Öcalan

He was captured in Kenya on 15 February 1999, while being transferred from the Greek embassy to Jomo Kenyata international airport Nairobi, in an operation by the Millî İstihbarat Teşkilâtı with debatable help of CIA or Mossad.

Aga Khan Hospital, Mombasa

It is part of the Aga Khan Health Services international referral system with links to the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi and Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi.

Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials

On 26 November 1976, the Protocol to the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific or Cultural Materials was concluded in Nairobi, Kenya.

Alemayo Kebede

Whilst competing in the 2009 CECAFA Cup in Kenya he was part of the Eritrea national football team which failed to return home after competing in the regional tournament in Nairobi.

Ali Mohamed

In 1993 Mohamed also traveled to Africa to survey embassies in Africa such as the Nairobi, (Kenya) embassy which Al-Qaeda later bombed.

An Elephant Called Slowly

Arriving in Nairobi, they are met by Mr. Mophagee (Vinay Inambar) who has arranged transport for the couple - an old land rover series 2 which becomes something of a character in the film.

Azim Nanji

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Professor Nanji attended schools in Kenya, Tanzania, and Makerere University in Uganda, and received his master's and doctoral degrees in Islamic Studies from McGill University, Canada.

Bank of Baroda

The next year it opened a second branch in Kenya, in Nairobi, and in 1956 it opened a branch in Dar-es-Salaam.

Battle of Mengo Hill

After brief stays in Nairobi and Addis Ababa he was given asylum in the United Kingdom where he stayed until death, under mysterious circumstances, in 1969.

Benedict Wachira

Wachira was born in Nairobi’s Eastlands area, going through different schools and eventually joining the University of Nairobi where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics and Chemistry.

Benjamin Pulimood

He represented the Mar Thoma Church in the World Council of Churches at Nairobi and is the recipient of the Manva Seva Award of the Mar Thoma Church.

Bernd Heine

In 1990 he received the Kenya Kiswahili Association Award in Nairobi, in 1994 he was Fellow of the Australian Research Council, in 1995 he received an award from the National Kiswahili Council of the Republic of Tanzania.

Bethwell Allan Ogot

He has been chairman of the History Department of the University College, Nairobi, edited Volume V of UNESCO's History of Africa, and presided over the committee that oversaw the production of the entire History.

Bruce L. Edwards

In the past, he has served as Fulbright Fellow in Nairobi, Kenya (1999-2000), teaching at Daystar University, and as a Bradley Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC (1989–90), and as the S. W. Brooks Memorial Professor of Literature at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (1988).

Charles William Hobley

Ultimately, Hobley became Provincial Commissioner of Kavirondo Region (later called Nyanza Province) and later (circa 1909) sub-commissioner of Ukamba Province (stationed in Nairobi).

Chris Read

After an England A tour to Kenya and Sri Lanka in the winter - making his first-class debut in Nairobi - Read was picked up by Nottinghamshire for the 1998 season.

Daniel Adams-Ray

Daniel David John Adams-Ray (born 18 August 1983 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a Swedish rapper, singer, and fashion designer.

Daniel Musyoka Mutinda

Mutinda worked with Kaplan and Stratton Advocates, Nairobi, before contesting the Kitui Central parliamentary seat in 1974.

Derek Oulton

He was called to the bar at Gray’s Inn (where he was later a Bencher), and was in private practice as a barrister in Nairobi until 1960, when he joined the Lord Chancellor’s Department.

Digital Earth

UNEP began actively testing prototypes for a UNEP geo-browser beginning in mid-2001 with a showcase for the African community displayed at the 5th African GIS Conference in Nairobi, Kenya November 2001.

Eighth World

The album reflects a more up close and personal theme, with lyrics about relationships and the many sceneries Misia encountered in her homeland as well as in Kenya, where she visited the Kibera slum in Nairobi.

Foreign relations of Kenya

Chinese-Kenyan relations date back to 14 December 1963, two days after the formal establishment of Kenyan independence, when China became the fourth country to open an embassy in Nairobi.

Four years later, the British founded the settlement of Nairobi as a simple rail depot on the railway linking Mombasa to Uganda.

Turkey has an embassy in Nairobi and from mid 2012 Kenya does have an embassy in Turkey but an ambassador is yet to be appointed.

Furcifer

Additionally, F. pardalis has been introduced to Réunion and Mauritius, while F. oustaleti has been introduced to near Nairobi in Kenya.

Gillian Condy

Gillian Condy, born 5 December 1952 Nairobi, is a South African botanical artist.

Global Environment Outlook

Working together with the GEO Coordinating Team in Nairobi and the regions, the CCs research, write and review major parts of the report.

Halloween with the New Addams Family

Pugsley (Senior) is home from Nairobi medical school, where he is training to be a witch doctor.

Heat of the Sun

Starring Trevor Eve as Superintendent Albert Tyburn, a Scotland Yard officer sent to Nairobi after a shooting, the show focuses on the seedier side of the expatriate community in Kenya.

Henry Odera Oruka

Henry Odera Oruka (June 1, 1944, Nyanza Province–December 9, 1995, Nairobi) was a Kenyan philosopher who is best known for Sage Philosophy, a project started in the 1970s in an attempt to preserve the knowledge of the indigenous thinkers in traditional African communities.

Human trafficking in Kenya

City Council Social Services Departments in Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu operated shelters to rehabilitate street children vulnerable to forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation; the government provided services to children exploited in the commercial sex industry at these facilities.

IAS Cargo Airlines

The aforesaid aircraft crashed on 14 May 1977 during the final approach to Lusaka Airport at the end of a non-scheduled all-cargo flight from London Heathrow via Athens and Nairobi when its right-hand horizontal stabiliser separated as a result of metal fatigue, causing a loss of pitch control and killing all six occupants.

Ingrid Munro

Ingrid Munro founded and manages Jamii Bora, a microfinance organization based in Nairobi, Kenya.

International Association of Students in Agricultural and Related Sciences

1989 32nd Congress in Nairobi (Kenya); Topic: Agriculture, Underproduction and its Future Prospects in Developing Countries

International Federation for Human Rights

The International Secretariat is based in Paris, with delegations to the United Nations in Geneva and New York, to the European Union in Brussels, to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, to the African Union in Nairobi and to the Asean in Bangkok.

Iustin Moisescu

As a member of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (1961–77), he participated in general congresses at New Delhi (1961), Uppsala (1969) and Nairobi (1975) as well as at the annual sessions of the Central Committee at Paris (1962), Geneva (1966, 1973 and 1976), Heraklion (1967), Canterbury (1969), Addis Ababa (1971), Utrecht (1972), Berlin (1974), etc.

J. Anthony Holmes

Holmes has spent many of his thirty-year Foreign Service career on issues affecting Africa, including service as the economic-commercial section chief in Harare and in the economic section in Nairobi.

Jesse Aliganga

Aligana was working at the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.

John Dawes

He was selected for Wales' first overseas tour later the same year and played in the Welsh rugby team's first match outside of Europe and its first in the Southern Hemisphere; played against East Africa in Nairobi on 12 May 1964, Wales winning 8–26.

John Guidetti

After one year with the Impala club, Guidetti joined Mathare United's academy, the MYSA organisation for sports development aid, in the slums of Nairobi.

John Neysmith

Under his direction, the Scouts Canada Brotherhood Fund raised money to buy a cow for a Street Scout group in Nairobi, and bought and installed computer systems for training Scouters in ten Southern African countries.

John Robin Stephenson

He managed a club tour to East Africa in 1980-1981, during which his powers of diplomacy came to the fore during a difficult situation at Nairobi Airport.

John Scarlett

Shortly afterward, he was recruited by MI6 and served in Moscow, Nairobi (1973–1976), and Paris.

John Weston Brooke

The party, known as the "Four B.'s", traveled from Nairobi via Mount Elgon northwards to the western shores of Lake Rudolph, experiencing plenty of privations from want of water, and of the danger from encounters with the natives.

Joseph Maina Mungai

Joseph Maina Mungai (born in Kenya, 1932; died August 2003) was the first African to become Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Nairobi.

Kai Curry-Lindahl

From 1974 until his death he was an advisor to UN agencies UNESCO, FAO, UNEP, and about 35 African governments from his base in Nairobi.

Kara the Jungle Princess

She was on a plane piloted by Major Christopher "Kit" Walker when it crashed into a lake in the jungles of Nairobi.

Katharine Houreld

She is based in Nairobi, and serves as an East African correspondent to the associated press, her writings focus on political unrest and human rights violations in Africa.

Kenya Kongonis Cricket Club

The Kenya Kongonis Cricket Club also abbreviated as Kenya Kongonis, is a Kenyan domestic cricket club based in the Nairobi Club Ground, Nairobi.

The team is based in Nairobi, Kenya and is operated by the Kenya Kongonis Cricket Club which is a member of the Nairobi Province Cricket Association.

Kenyatta International Conference Centre

The KICC currently stands as the third tallest building in Kenya, reaching a height of 105 metres.

The Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) is a 28-story building located in Nairobi, Kenya.

Leticia Ramos-Shahani

After passing the Philippine Foreign Service Officer (FSO) Examination, she held various high positions such as: she was appointed Ambassador to Australia from 1981 to 1986; Secretary-General of the World Conference on the UN Decade of Women in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985.

Macho ya Mji

The comic, first published on 26 March 1998 by Sasa Sema Publications, stars two boys and a blind beggar in Nairobi.

Mary S. Lovell

Her book on Markham, Straight on Till Morning, researched and written in under a year, after weeks of interviews with the subject in Nairobi, became an immediate international bestseller when it was published in 1987 and was twelve weeks on the New York Times Best Seller lists.

Mathare Football for Hope Centre

MYSA, the centre’s host organization, is located in Mathare, a collection of slums in Nairobi, Kenya.

Medicom, the African Journal of Hospital Medicine

Medicom is the African Journal of Hospital Medicine, published in Nairobi, Kenya, by Update Publishers, founded and edited by Professor Peter Odhiambo.

Mighty King Kong

He was transported to Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, where he died as he was being treated.

Mobius Motors

Mobius Motors is an automaker that started in Mombasa, Kenya but is now based in Nairobi, Kenya that builds inexpensive vehicles "by integrating off-the-shelf parts within a durable and safe tubular steel frame"

Mohammad Rabbani

He also maintained that there was not sufficient evidence linking him to terrorist bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam and that, at any rate, bin Laden was no longer able to carry out activities from Afghan territory.

Munyua Waiyaki

He arrived at Mombasa by sea from South Africa in 1951 afterwhich his father introduced him to Jomo Kenyatta and Mbiyu Koinange at a restaurant along Latema road in Nairobi.

Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah

Also known as Abdul Rahman, Abu Abdul Rahman al-Muhajir, Abdel Rahman, Abu Turab, Ibrahim al-Muhajir, and Mohammed K.A., he was wanted by the United States government in connection to the August 7, 1998 American embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.

My Life in Prison

This series is loosely based on Kiriamiti's experiences as a young criminal in Nairobi, and was written mainly whilst he was in prison for robbery.

Myles Ponsonby

In 1951, he entered the British government's Foreign Service, later transferring to the Diplomatic Service, and held posts in Egypt (1951), Cyprus (1952–53), Beirut (1953–56), Djakarta (1958–61), and Nairobi (1963–64).

Nairobi airport rail link

The government of Kenya has proposed a rapid rail connection between Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and central Nairobi.

The Nairobi airport rail link is an infrastructure project in Nairobi, in Kenya.

Nazanine Moshiri

She is based at the channel's bureau in Nairobi in Kenya and is sometimes described as an East Africa Correspondent, although she has reported from numerous locations beyond this region.

Neville Chittick

In 1961, Chittick was appointed the first Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa in Nairobi.

Nicky Imber

Following the war, he opened an art school in Nairobi, Kenya, during which time he worked as a photographer and as a safari guide.

Peter Opiyo

Peter Opiyo Odhiambo (born August 1, 1992 in Nairobi) is a Kenyan footballer who is currently playing for the AFC Leopards.

Peter Poole

Peter Poole (born c. 1932 - died 18 August 1960 in Nairobi, Kenya) was a British-born Kenyan engineer and shop owner.

Peter Serry

Peter Serry (born February 13, 1973 in Nairobi, died January 28, 2009 in Nairobi) was a Kenyan football player, coach and administrator.

Prosper Masatu Makonya

Prosper Masatu Makonya is a Tanzanian sportsperson who was elected as president of the East and Central African Tae Kwon Do Confederation on 30 October 2004 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Rich, Famous and in the Slums

Her family have no idea she is a prostitute and think she is a receptionist in Nairobi and Angela Rippon goes to live with a lady who owns a hair salon and is HIV positive.

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

Graduate and professional programs are offered at facilities in Winona, the Twin Cities, Rochester, Apple Valley, Minnetonka and Oakdale, Minnesota; and various course delivery sites around Minnesota and Wisconsin; Jamaica, and Nairobi, Kenya.

Sankho Chaudhuri

1987 : Executed approximate 4’.6” Marble Sculpture for Habitat, Nairobi.

Sidney Swann

Swann moved to Nairobi as Archdeacon in 1926-27, to Egypt in the same position in 1928, and returned to England in 1933, where he became vicar of Leighton Buzzard.

Sir George Dick-Lauder, 12th Baronet

He was then seconded as second-in command to the 11th battalion King's African Rifles in Nairobi (1957 - 1960).

Soul Boy

It developed under the mentorship of German director and producer Tom Tykwer in Kibera, one of the largest slums in the African continent, in the middle of Nairobi, Kenya.

Spiritual warfare

The conference gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, and yielded a consultation document as well as many technical papers published as the book Deliver Us from Evil.

Steve Bloom

Bloom's second book on Africa, Trading Places - The Merchants of Nairobi, features subsistence shopkeepers in the suburbs of Nairobi, including Kibera.

Street children

There are an estimated 250,000 street children in Kenya and over 60,000 in the capital Nairobi.

Tarzan and the Lost Safari

It was also MGM's first Tarzan film since 1942 and filmed in Nairobi, British East Africa.

Theodoros Pangalos

In 1996 he was appointed as a Minister for Foreign Affairs and held the post until his resignation in 1999, in the aftermath of the scandal involving the Kurdish nationalist leader, Abdullah Öcalan: helped by individual members of the Greek intelligence agencies Öcalan entered Greece illegally and was then deported to Kenya, where he was captured by Turkish agents after leaving the Greek embassy at Nairobi.

Transitional Government of National Unity

In February 1982, a special OAU meeting in Nairobi resulted in a plan that called for a ceasefire, negotiations among all parties, elections, and the departure of the IAF; all terms were to be carried out within six months.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1189

United Nations Security Council resolution 1189, adopted unanimously on 13 August 1998, after expressing its deep disturbance at the bombings in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 7 August 1998, the Council strongly condemned the terrorist attacks and called on countries to adopt measures to prevent further incidents.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1591

In the preamble of the resolution, the Council welcomed of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Nairobi, Kenya, by the Sudanese government and Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M).

Utrecht Marathon

A Nairobi-based businessman, Gert-Jan van Wijk, disapproved of the prize scheme and offered to personally make up the difference for foreign athletes, saying: "I think the Netherlands is afraid of competition, afraid of the unknown, afraid of different cultures. Holland is turning inside herself, instead of becoming stronger by taking up the competition".

Vanoil Energy

In addition to its office in Vancouver, Vanoil has representation through its subsidiaries in Nairobi, Kenya, Antananarivo, Madagascar and Douglas, Isle of Man.

Westgate shopping mall

Westgate is an upscale shopping mall located in the Westlands neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya.

Wilfred Lai

He went and joined Life Ministry (Christian Campus for Christ) in Nairobi in 1983 he was then transferred to Mombasa where he was the Director of Coast Province, he was also the assistant pastor of the local Redeemed Gospel Church.

Wolfgang Petritsch

This event is being referred to as the 2004 Nairobi Summit on a Mine Free World, given the location of the event and the fact that it will mark the midway point between the Convention’s entry-into-force and the first deadlines for States to have cleared mined areas.

World Agroforestry Centre

The World Agroforestry Centre (known as the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, ICRAF before 2002), is an international institute headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and founded in 1978.

Yenlin Ku

After returning from the 1985 Nairobi conference, Ku and other women's studies scholars formed the Women's Research Program at National Taiwan University.


2011 African Cross Country Championships

The Kenyan team's jubilant celebrations led to the entire squad of 30 runners and officials missing their flight for Nairobi, scheduled later that day at Cape Town International Airport.

2012 Kenya Police helicopter crash

The helicopter was on a flight from Nairobi to Ratang’a village in Ndhiwa Constituency, Homa Bay District.

Africa Evangelical Presbyterian Church

The Beyond Mwingi Mission started dozens of mission churches in Nairobi, Kiambu, Meru, Embu and Nakuru.

AllAfrica.com

It is available in both English and French and produced by AllAfrica Global Media, which has offices in Cape Town, Dakar, Lagos, Monrovia, Nairobi, and Washington, D.C..

Arap Bethke

Ricardo Arap Bethke Galdames (born March 12, 1980 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a Mexican actor.

Arthur Frederick Dicks

This new direction saw him working as a set and costume designer in England, USA and Africa, spending some time in Nairobi.

Bahá'í International Community

The Bahá'í International Community has offices at the United Nations in New York and Geneva and representations to United Nations regional commissions and other offices in Addis Ababa, Bangkok, Nairobi, Rome, Santiago, and Vienna.

Cephas Yao Agbemenu

Cephas Yao Agbemenu was a member of and contributor to the African Proverbs, Stories and Sayings Committee, chaired by Father Joseph Healey founded in Nairobi, Kenya.

David Waweru

Events, dubbed BookTalkAfrica have already been held in Nairobi and Kampala where people queued waiting to speak to their favourite authors.

FilmAid International

FilmAid currently works in Kenya, in the large refugee camps of Dadaab and Kakuma as well as informal settlements in Nairobi and Mombassa, with Burmese refugees in Thailand and also in Haiti.

Horace Campbell

He gave presentations on Peace and Reconstruction before the Uganda Society in Uganda, the Nairobi Peace Initiative (Nairobi, Kenya) and the Desmond Tutu Peace Center (Cape Town, South Africa).

James Omondi

James Omondi Oduor (born December 30, 1980 in Nairobi) is a former Kenyan football defender who last played for Mathare United, and currently manages Karuturi Sports in the Tusker Premier League.

Janet Museveni

In February 1981 when Yoweri Museveni launched his guerrilla war against the government of President Milton Obote, Janet Museveni and her children re-located to Nairobi, Kenya, where they lived with family friends until 1983.

John Oballa Owaa

Tindinyo College has since been turned to a Major seminary and Theologicum, Later he joined St. Augustine Senior Seminary, Mabanga from 1980 to 1982 and St. Thomas Aquinas National Major Seminary, Nairobi) from 1982 to 1986.

John Paul Oulu

Oulu was shot and killed while sitting in rush hour traffic in Nairobi on March 5, 2009 along with lawyer and founder of the Oscar Foundation, Oscar Kamau Kingara.

Kenyan Sign Language

Humble Hearts School in Nairobi, Kisii School for the Deaf and Kenya Christian School for the Deaf at Oyugis uses KSL as the language of instruction.

Luise Radlmeier

In 1987, while teaching in Nairobi, Radlmeier's attention was drawn by the growing number of young refugees fleeing the Second Sudanese War who came to the Dominican Sisters' convent seeking relief.

Matse Uwatse

In 2009 she won the Women in Media and Entertainment Awards for her "Excellence in Radio Presenting", and the African Voices Awards in Nairobi, Kenya as the "Most Outstanding Radio Presenter in West Africa" 2009.

Mike Sonko

Mbuvi became the First Senator of Nairobi after it was announced that, with 808,705 votes, beat his closest competitor, Margaret Wanjiru of the Orange Democratic Movement, who had garnered 525,822 votes, in the Nairobi senatorial election of 2013.

MTV Africa Music Awards 2009

The 2nd MTV Africa Music Awards were held on October 10, 2009 at the gymnasium of the Moi International Sports Centre complex in Nairobi, Kenya and were hosted by Haitian-American artist Wyclef Jean.

Multimedia University of Kenya

It is specifically located near the western side of the Nairobi National Park on Magadi Road in Nairobi.

Munyua Waiyaki

In 1962 he challenged Tom Mboya for the Nairobi East parliament seat but he lost by 2668 votes to 31407.

Nashil Pichen

He spent a long time in Nairobi, Kenya, where he collaborated with fellow Zambia emigre Peter 'Tsotsi' Juma who was from Mbala in Northern Province on the Zambia-Tanzania border and Benson Simbeye.

Roberts International Airport

In the late 1970s and into the early 1980s, the airport became Pan Am's principal African hub, with a non-stop service from New York JFK connecting at Robertsfield to such destinations as Dakar, Accra, Abidjan, Lagos, and Conakry, among others, and continuing on to Nairobi and even at times Johannesburg, so that for many years virtually every Pan Am passenger to Africa passed through Robertsfield.

Tanzanite

Shortly thereafter, the stones were shown to John Saul, a Nairobi-based consulting geologist and gemstone wholesaler who was then mining aquamarine in the region around Mount Kenya.

The Lion

With her idealistic view of the African savanna crushed, Patricia finally gives in to everyone's demands and leaves with the narrator to attend a boarding school in Nairobi.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1569

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1569, adopted unanimously on 26 October 2004, after invoking Article 28 of the United Nations Charter, the Council decided to hold a two-day meeting on the situation in Sudan in Nairobi, Kenya.

Victor Jackovich

As a career officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, he held assignments in Kiev (1979–1980), where he helped to start the first U.S. government office in Ukraine; Bucharest (1980–1983); Nairobi (1983–1986); Moscow (1988–1990); and Sofia, Bulgaria (1991).

Vuk Drašković

He first worked for the state newsagency Tanjug as its African correspondent stationed in Nairobi, Kenya, before taking a job as press advisor in the Yugoslav Workers Union Council (SSRNJ).

Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Mutu (born June 22, 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya) is an artist and sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

William de Villiers

Andries William de Villiers (born 9 July 1957 in Nairobi) is a South African author who wrote Messengers, Watchmen and Stewards, a biographical register of clergymen licensed, ordained for service, or otherwise active, in the Anglican diocese of Cape Town prior to the death of Archbishop William West Jones on 21 May 1908 (1998).