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 * 1) The president of Kenya is Mwai Kibaki.
 * 2) The population of 41,070,934 in Kenya. The geography in Africa is that it has many mountains and has the mountain, Mt. Kenya. The capital of Kenya is Nairobi. Kenya also has the great river valley going through it. There economy is the largest by gross domestic product in Africa. Kenya has traditionally been a liberal market with minimal government involvement (price control) seen in the oil industry. But, recent legislation allows the government to determine and newspaper price-controls on essential commodities like maize flour, kerosene and cooking oil. Their also striving for a knowledge economy and they are doing that by how they have made a website that has information on other countries. The social structure is the Caste system and that’s when people are split in different groups from richest to poorest. They also have ethnic divisions and western culture has affected them. The government Kenya has is a republic.
 * 3) Mwai has had a very political background. He was born in Gatuyaini, Othaya, Nyeri, Kenya. He was the minister of finance from 1969-1981, the Fourth vice president of Kenya from 1978-1988, the minister of Home affairs 1982-1988, the minister of health from 1988-1991, and he is the third president of Kenya 2002-present. He has two wives, Lucy Kibaki and Mary Wambui.
 * 4) Kenya has a relationship with Uganda and Tanzania because they are establishing a 3-way trade with them, it’s called the Eastern African Union, EAC. They also have a good relationship with the U.S. because the horn of Africa has had terrorists attack there and because of that, the bond between them and the U.S. is a good one.
 * 5) Kenya has an average safety and natural laws ranking (50). On the upside, Kenya has a good grade in national security, so they are good in that position. Kenya has a problem with crime. It’s so bad, the capital was nicknamed Nairobbery. There is lot of it in both rural and urban areas. On the Participation and Human rights department, Kenya isn’t great (55). The police are corrupt and if they abuse someone badly, the people look away. Kenya’s economy has a low rating (45). Kenya has a market based economy. Their economy is getting better than it has been. The government, generally perceived as investment friendly, has enacted several regulatory reforms to simplify both foreign and local investment . They do take ok care on their environment and their rural places. The human develop score for Kenya isn’t great (51). The people in Kenya have poor health conditions and the life expectancy is 47-55. Many people in Kenya die before they even reach the age of 5. The children die of Malaria , HIV/AIDS, pneumonia, diarrhea and malnutrition.

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