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City in Nakuru County, Kenya Nakuru City Clockwise from top: Golden life mall, Pundit Nehru road, Moi road, Uhuru Gardens public park. Nicknames: Naks-vegas The fourth city Nakuru Location of Nakuru Coordinates: Country Kenya County Nakuru County Founded 1904 Government • Type County Government • Body County Assembly • Governor Susan Kihika Elevation 1,850 m (6,070 ft) Population ...
The Patel Milmet Dam was a privately owned embankment dam located near the township of Solai, Nakuru County, in Kenya's Rift Valley. The dam burst amid heavy rains on 9 May 2018, killing at least 48 people. [1] [2] [3]
Nakuru County is a county in Kenya.It is county number 32 out of the 47 Kenyan counties. Nakuru County is a host to Kenya's Fourth City – Nakuru City. On 1 December 2021, President Uhuru Kenyatta awarded a City Charter status to Nakuru, [6] ranking it with Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu as the cities in Kenya.
NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya's police chief Japhet Koome resigned on Friday following intense criticism of officers' conduct during anti-government protests last month in which at least 39 people were ...
Gachagua, who denies all the charges, backed President William Ruto in his 2022 election win and helped secure a large block of votes from the populous central Kenya region.
On 29 April 2024, a blockage in a culvert beneath a railway embankment led to a catastrophic failure and inundation in Kenya, killing at least 50 people. [2] The event was initially described as a 'dam failure'. [3] The flood occurred following heavy rains in the previous month that killed over 110 people.
Jacob Kushner and Anthony Langat are Kenya-based reporters for the GroundTruth Project, a non-profit global news service headquartered in the U.S. Sasha Chavkin is a reporter and Michael Hudson is a senior editor at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Produced by Hilary Fung and Shane Shifflett.
Lake Nakuru is one of the Rift Valley lakes, located at an elevation of 1,754 m (5,755 ft) above sea level. It lies to the south of Nakuru, in the rift valley of Kenya and is protected by Lake Nakuru National Park. The lake's abundance of algae used to attract a vast quantity of flamingos that famously lined the shore.