KENYA

Kenya!

The home of the best athletes bagging medals in Rio as you read this.

The Humble Home of POTUS father,

The land of the big 5!

The most peaceful, organized country in the continent, with great citizens, good roads, good and working financial systems, the home of MPESA, SILK, iHub, and other innovative ideas,

The home of the city in the sun,

The home of worlds largest fresh water lake,

The home with great hospitality never witnessed any part of the world.

The home of the sitting first Presidents son who is the current President who will be running against the first Vice President's son who is the current opposition leader.

The home where politicians compete with their stomach instead of ideologies.

The home where economy can be heard growing like a bean stalk.

The home of one of the Wold's tallest mountain, Mt Kenya.

The home where terrorist strike and business continues like nothing because we have learnt how to put them in their rightful place,

The gateway to Africa.

Kenya is just about the same size as the US state of Texas

The first African Woman to win a Nobel peace prize was from Kenya

The National Language Kiswahili or Swahili borrows a good number of words from Hindi and Urdu. Hindi is one of the official languages of the Union of India. Some common words are Chai (Tea), Chapati (unleavened flatbread), Gari (Vehicle), Pesa (Money), Laki (A hundred thousand)

Kenya is the Worlds 47th largest country- Kenya has 47 Counties.

Princess Elizabeth was staying at the Tree Top Hotel in Kenya when she became Queen (ofcourse she had to go back home for the coronation, but she became queen in Kenya after King George VI passed on).

Kenya’s main international Airport is named after the first President Jomo Kenyatta who is also the father of the current president.

In sports Kenya is best known for Athletics

That is Kenya!

BUT LATELY

KENYA HAS BEEN GOING THROUGH A LOT OF CONTROVERSIAL NEWS AND STORIES CONCERNING THEIR GOVERNMENT AND ITS RULING SYSTEM

Devolution. Since 2013 Kenya has made significant economic progress as a result of devolved governance structures.

Kenya has 47 counties that are semi-autonomous and this has ensured all parts of the country get their share of the national pie. Devolution has transformed Kenya tremendously and this can be confirmed from the respective county websites.

Henry was installed as head of a new government in an attempt to stabilize a country on the brink of chaos since the murder of President Jovenel Moise at his residence in the early hours of July 7.

The swearing-in of Henry, who was named to the post by Moise days before his death, was seen as a key step towards holding elections as demanded by many Haitians and the international community.

After the president was killed by armed commandos, acting prime minister Claude Joseph declared a "state of siege" and said he was in charge, launching a power tussle in the violence-wracked, impoverished Caribbean nation.

"One of my priority tasks will be to reassure the people that we will do everything to restore order and security," Henry said Tuesday to Haiti's population of 10 million people.

"This is one of the main issues that the president wanted me to tackle, because he understood that it was a necessary step if we were to succeed in his other concern of organizing credible, honest, transparent and inclusive elections."

The inauguration ceremony in Port-au-Prince was preceded by solemn tributes to Moise, including speeches, dancing and music on a stage set with bouquets of white flowers and a giant portrait of the assassinated president.

Haitian authorities, with the help of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, are still investigating the murky motives for Moise's assassination.

More than 20 people, many of them retired Colombian military personnel, have been arrested in connection with the killing.

Ruled by decree

In the new government, Joseph, who agreed to stand down and cede the role to Henry, returned to his former post as foreign minister.

Moise, 53, had ruled Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, by decree after legislative elections due in 2018 were delayed in the wake of multiple disputes, including on when his own term ended.

As well as presidential, legislative and local elections, Haiti had been due to have a constitutional referendum in September after it was twice postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In the power struggle after Moise's killing, the balance tipped towards Henry when ambassadors -- including from the United States, France and the United Nations -- informally threw their support behind the 71-year-old neurosurgeon.

Haiti has no working parliament and no workable succession process, and was already mired deep in a political and security crisis when Moise was killed.

Haitian police have accused a Haitian doctor with ties to Florida, Christian Emmanuel Sanon, of being a mastermind of the plot and having "political objectives."

"All the culprits, perpetrators and sponsors must be identified and brought before Haitian justice," Henry, who has previously held several ministerial jobs, said in his speech.

"And I hope that exemplary and dissuasive sentences will be pronounced. The nation expects no less from its leaders. Never again will we have to relive such a tragedy."

"The solution to the Haitian crisis must come from the Haitians," he added.

"Everything is negotiable, except democracy, elections and the rule of law."

Henry also thanked international partners for the arrival of the country's first batch of Covid-19 vaccines, which arrived last week in a nation with scarce health resources.

The United States, which exerts wide influence in Haiti, welcomed the new government, with State Department spokesman Ned Price saying Washington was "encouraged to see Haitian political and civil actors working to form a unity government that can stabilize the country."

Moise will be laid to rest on Friday in the northern city of Cap-Haitien. His widow Martine, who was seriously wounded in the attack, was treated in a Miami hospital before returning home over the weekend.

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