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5 unusual facts about Mombasa


Alvor Agreement

They met again in Mombasa, Kenya on January 5, 1975 and agreed to stop fighting each other, further outlining constitutional negotiations with the Portuguese.

Aril Edvardsen

He died 6 September 2008, in Mombasa, Kenya, where he was vacationing with his wife after a missionary campaign in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Battle of Shela

Lamu gained an unexpected victory over the forces of Pate and Mombasa.

The people of Lamu won against superior forces from Mombasa and Pate.

Mighty King Kong

Few years later he moved to Mombasa and performed with bands like Them Mushrooms and Pressmen.


Ahmad bin Said al-Busaidi

His two youngest sons were Talib, later governor of Nakhal and then of Rustaq, and Muhammad, later Governor-General of Mombasa and Oman's East African possessions.

Ann Claire Williams

In August 2011, Williams traveled to Mombasa, Kenya, on the invitation of Kenya's new Chief Justice, Willy Mutunga, for the 8th Annual Kenya Judges Colloquium.

Asaria

From there a large portion of them migrated to East Africa - namely to Mombasa, Kenya; Kampala, Uganda and to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Battle of Shela

The Mazrui of Mombasa sided with Ahmad and sent troops to support his claim.

Bhadala

A second migration took place in the 19th Century, which saw many Bhadala move to Mombasa, Lamu and Daresalam in East Africa.

Crime in Kenya

There is a high rate of crime in all regions of Kenya, particularly in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, and coastal beach resorts.

Foreign relations of Kenya

Four years later, the British founded the settlement of Nairobi as a simple rail depot on the railway linking Mombasa to Uganda.

Frederick John Jackson

In 1889 Jackson led an IBEAC expedition that included his friend and fellow explorer Arthur Neumann in the party designed to open up the regions between Mombasa and Lake Victoria, which was largely unknown to Europeans at that time, and if possible to obtain news of Emin Pasha.

Giriama people

They inhabit the area bordered by the coastal cities of Mombasa and Malindi, and the inland towns or Mariakani and Kaloleni.

Gulu

Rift Valley Railways funded clearing the line of vegetation and repairing structure, thus allowing the first commercial train for 20 years to run through on the metre gauge track from the Kenyan port Mombasa over Nairobi and Eldoret to Tororo and onwards to Gulu on September 14, 2013.

Human trafficking in Kenya

City Council Social Services Departments in Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu operated shelters to rehabilitate street children vulnerable to forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation; the government provided services to children exploited in the commercial sex industry at these facilities.

Kajiado

Kajiado has a station on the Magadi Soda Railway line which runs from Konza (on the Mombasa line) to Magadi.

Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij

The line's routes, beyond the home islands, included services to the ports of Singapore and Hong Kong, Shanghai, Manila, Saigon; the Australian ports of Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide; African ports such as Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay, Cape Town, Zanzibar, Mombasa, and the Indian Ocean ports of Réunion and Mauritius and Mahé.

Likoni

Likoni is the site of the southern terminus of the Likoni Ferry, a double ended ferry serving road traffic and pedestrians from both Likoni and Mombasa island.

Mackinnon Road

It has a station on the railway between Mombasa and Nairobi and was probably named because it was a junction of the Uganda Railway and the Mackinnon ox cart road 90km/60 miles outside Mombasa.

Mobius Motors

Mobius Motors is an automaker that started in Mombasa, Kenya but is now based in Nairobi, Kenya that builds inexpensive vehicles "by integrating off-the-shelf parts within a durable and safe tubular steel frame"

Mombasa Republican Council

The high court of Mombasa lifted the ban and ruled that claiming the group was illegal was unconstitutional.

Mtwapa

The town is also the location of the Mombasa-Mtwapa matatu terminus.

Munyua Waiyaki

He arrived at Mombasa by sea from South Africa in 1951 afterwhich his father introduced him to Jomo Kenyatta and Mbiyu Koinange at a restaurant along Latema road in Nairobi.

Nick Brownlee

The first book in the series introduces fastidious Mombasa-based detective Daniel Jouma and Jake Moore, a former member of the British Flying Squad who has fled to Kenya after a near-fatal shooting and now runs an ailing game fishing business.

Nyali

This is a par) of the Mombasa Marine Reserve, managed by Kenya Wildlife Service.

Samstag aus Licht

The work was composed in collaboration with Kathinka Pasveer in February and March 1983 at Diani Beach near Mombasa, Kenya (Stockhausen 1989a, 556).

South C

South C is also where the headquarters of the Kenya Red Cross Society is located & The Criminal Investigation Department (C.I.D) Training School of the Kenya Police, just off Mombasa road.

Stephen O'Brien

He was born in Mtwara, Tanzania and educated at Loretto School in Mombasa, at the Handbridge School (Chester), the Heronwater School (Abergele), Sedbergh School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Taveta, Kenya

The market is fueled in part by Taveta's distinctive rail connection through Voi with the Mombasa-Nairobi-Kampala line, built by the British during the era of the Kenya protectorate and celebrated in the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness.

Tom Mboya

They had five children, including daughters Maureen Odero, a high court judge in Mombasa, and Susan Mboya, a Coca-Cola executive who continues the education airlift program initiated by Tom Mboya.

Trans-African Highway network

The name Trans-African Highway and its variants are not in wide common usage outside of planning and development circles, and currently one does not see them signposted as such or labelled on maps, except in Kenya and Uganda where the MombasaNairobiKampalaFort Portal section (or the Kampala–Kigali feeder road) of Trans-African Highway 8 is sometimes referred to as the "Trans-Africa Highway".

Wilbur Dartnell

After the war they were reburied in the Commonwealth War Grave Cemetery at Voi, 100 miles inland from the port of Mombasa on the East African coast.

Wilfred Lai

He went and joined Life Ministry (Christian Campus for Christ) in Nairobi in 1983 he was then transferred to Mombasa where he was the Director of Coast Province, he was also the assistant pastor of the local Redeemed Gospel Church.

William P. McGivern

McGivern and his wife co-wrote Mention My Name in Mombasa: the Unscheduled Adventures of an American Family Abroad, which covered their times and adventures living oversees, including Africa, Torremolinos, Spain and Ireland.


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