Kenya

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Kenya is bordered in the north by Sudan and Ethiopia, in the east by Somalia, on the southeast by the Indian Ocean, on the southwest by Tanzania and to the west by Lake Victoria and Uganda.
The northern section of Kenya, forming three-fifths of the whole territory, is arid and of semidesert character, as is the bulk of the southeastern quarter.
In the north of Kenya, the valley is broad and shallow, embracing Lake Turkana (160 miles long), while further south it narrows and deepens and is walled by escarpments 610 to 930 mtr high.
Politics of Kenya takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Kenya is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
Kenya's GDP grew 5% in 1995 and 4% in 1996, and inflation remained under control.
Kenya holds one of the biggest annual drama events, the Kenya schools and colleges drama festival, in the south of Sahara.
Welcome to the Embassy of Kenya, Washington, DC.
Kenya is about to make history by becoming the first country in East and Central Africa to issue a sovereign bond in the international capital markets.
While working with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to re-populate Tsavo East National Park with the almost extinct Black Rhino, Anthony Russell had a revelation.
Kenya's proximity to the Arabian Peninsula invited colonization, and Arab and Persian settlements sprouted along the coast by the eighth century.