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Kilindini
Kilindini see Mombasa , Kenya.
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Kenya bears brunt of Mombasa terror. (Editorial).
Magazine article from: African Business; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Kenya is still counting the cost of the terror attacks on the Paradise...a large number of Israelis, they have succeeded in giving Kenya a terrible economic wound. The tourism sector is the most...victim of the terrorist attack. This sector which earns 12% of Kenya's GDP, employs 300,000 people directly and ...
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COLOR KENYA
Newspaper article from: Chicago Defender; 2/9/2002; ; 700+ words
; Kenya is found in East Africa. It is about 224,960 square miles...a little smaller than the state of Texas. Some people in Kenya speak English and Swahili. Many wild life creatures live...antelopes, zebras and giraffes graze. Thousands of people visit Kenya's wild life each year. Kenya is very ...
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Out of Kenya's violence, rebirth.(OPINION)(Country overview)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 2/12/2008; ; 700+ words
; Byline: Kodi Barth Storrs, Conn. -- Kenya has been sitting on a bomb for 40 years...goes back to the early independence years. Kenya's founding father and president from 1964...42 ethnic groups are welcome to live in Kenya, a former cabinet minister recently told...
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Africa: Kenya
Newspaper article from: Tennessee TRIBUNE, The; 1/29/1997; 673 words
; Tennessee TRIBUNE, The 01-29-1997 Africa: Kenya. Dr. Funso Oluytian Kenya, pronounced KEEN yuh, is located on the east coast...There is an estimated population of 28 million in Kenya occupying an area of 640 miles north to south and...
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Islam and Politics in Kenya
Magazine article from: African Studies Review; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Arye Oded. Islam and Politics in Kenya. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers...49.95. Cloth. According to Arye Oded, Kenya's five million Muslims constitute a key...contributed to the emergence of militant Islam in Kenya in the 1990s, against the backdrop of an...
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Twenty years later, another movie puts Kenya in the spotlight.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune; 9/12/2005; 700+ words
; ...the year or two since my first visit to Kenya, it is the colors of Africa that I remember...Even if I forget all else I ever saw in Kenya but just one thing, it is the amalgamation...suspense and intrigue partially set in Kenya. With the release of film version of The...
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Vicious Mungiki cult preys on the poor in Kenya.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 6/29/2007; 700+ words
; Byline: Paul Salopek NAIROBI, Kenya _ Francis Nganga says he has never chopped...started appearing with jarring regularity in Kenya's vast and fetid shantytowns, residents...off a round of pained soul-searching in Kenya, where political analysts and sociologists...
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If Kenya goes... (economic problems may spread to other African nations)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 6/12/1993; 700+ words
; ...it did so partly because of next-door Kenya, the golden clasp that holds the whole...The publication in Nairobi last week of Kenya's Economic Survey showed that even the...to admit that things are falling apart. Kenya's real GDP growth slipped to 0.4% last...
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Knowledge to survive by in Kenya: gems to giraffes
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 10/9/2001; ; 374 words
; Knowledge to survive by in Kenya: gems to giraffes By KATHY FLANIGAN of...campsite in the Shaba National Reserve in Kenya. It may look fuzzily familiar to those...generation ago. If what you know about Kenya is a little vague and perhaps limited...
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'Madness' in the shantytowns: With thousands of followers, the vicious Mungiki cult preys on the poor and vows to disrupt Kenya's fledgling democracy.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 6/28/2007; 700+ words
; Byline: Paul Salopek Jun. 28--NAIROBI, Kenya -- Francis Nganga says he has never chopped...started appearing with jarring regularity in Kenya's vast and fetid shantytowns, residents...off a round of pained soul-searching in Kenya, where political analysts and sociologists...
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Far East Combined Bureau
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...Japanese Navy intended raiding Ceylon (see Indian Ocean ). The section then went with Somerville's Eastern Fleet to Mombasa (Kilindini) in Kenya but returned to Colombo in 1943. The FECB's records were probably destroyed and opinions vary as to how much the...
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British East Africa
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...only raw materials , rubber and sisal, of any quantity though Uganda did also produce some rubber. After the Japanese Navy's raid into the Indian Ocean in April 1942, the British Eastern Fleet was based for a time at Mombasa's port, Kilindini.
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Indian Ocean raid
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...notably inferior to the Japanese, were unable to protect his battleships, Somerville sent the latter to the Kenyan port of Kilindini (Mombasa) in British East Africa and warned the Admiralty that he could only ‘create diversions and false scents, since...
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