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    Introduction


    Founding president and liberation struggle icon Jomo KENYATTA led Kenya from independence until his death in 1978, when President Daniel Toroitich arap MOI took power in a constitutional succession. The country was a de facto one-party state from 1969 until 1982 when the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) made itself the sole legal party in Kenya. MOI acceded to internal and external pressure for political liberalization in late 1991. The ethnically fractured opposition failed to dislodge KANU from power in elections in 1992 and 1997, which were marred by violence and fraud, but are viewed as having generally reflected the will of the Kenyan people. President MOI stepped down in December of 2002 following fair and peaceful elections. Mwai KIBAKI, running as the candidate of the multiethnic, united opposition group, the National Rainbow Coalition, defeated KANU candidate Uhuru KENYATTA and assumed the presidency following a campaign centered on an anticorruption platform.


    Location


    Eastern Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, between Somalia and Tanzania


    Geographic coordinates


    1 00 N, 38 00 E


    Area


    total: 582,650 sq km water: 13,400 sq km land: 569,250 sq km


    Area - comparative


    slightly more than twice the size of Nevada


    Land boundaries


    total: 3,477 km border countries: Ethiopia 861 km, Somalia 682 km, Sudan 232 km, Tanzania 769 km, Uganda 933 km


    Coastline


    536 km


    Maritime claims


    territorial sea: 12 NM exclusive economic zone: 200 NM continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation


    Climate


    varies from tropical along coast to arid in interior


    Terrain


    low plains rise to central highlands bisected by Great Rift Valley; fertile plateau in west


    Elevation extremes


    lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: Mount Kenya 5,199


    Natural resources


    gold, limestone, soda ash, salt, rubies, fluorspar, garnets, wildlife, hydropower


    Land use


    arable land: 7.03% permanent crops: 0.91% other: 92.06% (1998 est.)


    Irrigated land


    670 sq km (1998 est.)


    Natural hazards


    recurring drought; flooding during rainy seasons


    Environment - current issues


    water pollution from urban and industrial wastes; degradation of water quality from increased use of pesticides and fertilizers; water hyacinth infestation in Lake Victoria; deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; poaching


    Environment - international agreements


    party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements


    Geography - note


    the Kenyan Highlands comprise one of the most successful agricultural production regions in Africa; glaciers are found on Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest peak; unique physiography supports abundant and varied wildlife of scientific and economic value


    Population


    32,021,856 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2004 est.)


    Capital


    Nairobi


    Phone Code


    +254


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