Kenya
Kenya is situated in East Africa, it boreders the Indian Ocean to the south east, Tanzania to the south west. Uganda to the west, Sudan to the north west, ethiopia to the north and somalia to the north east.
Total Area:582,650 sq km
Land Borders: Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
Population: 34,707,817
Life Expectancy: 49 years
HIV % Total Poulation:6.7%
Ethnic Groups: Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru 6%, other African 15%, non-African (Asian, European, and Arab) 1%
Languages:English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages
President:Mwai KIBAKI
GDP - Per Capita: $1,100
Founding president and liberation struggle icon Jomo KENYATTA led Kenya from independence in 1963 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 were viewed as having generally reflected the will of the Kenyan people. President MOI stepped down in December 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.