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• Kenya hold its first presidential debate - between all eight candidates - on 11 February 2013. For the first time in history, Kenyans had the opportunity to see their favorite presidential candidates take the podium apart from the campaign to discuss real issues affecting people's lives.^[1]

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• Kenya defeated strong-favorite West Indies in a Cricket World Cup match on 29 February 1996 by 73 runs. It is not only a glorious day for Kenyan cricket but also considered as one of the biggest upset wins of cricket world cup history.^[2]

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• Peggoty Mutai from Kenya received a Unesco-L’Oreal International Fellowship for Young Women in Life Sciences on 29 March 2012 for her research to exploit the untapped potential of local plants to find new treatments for parasitic worms responsible for the ill-health of millions of people in the developing world.^[3]

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• Ikal Angelei from Kenya won the 2012 Goldman Environmental Prize, considered as the Nobel Prize for grassroots environmentalism, on 16 April 2012. Ikal was awarded for her fights against the construction of the massive Gibe 3 Dam that would block access to water for indigenous communities around Lake Turkana.^[4]

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• Emmanuel Mutai and Mary Keitany brought double delight for Kenya as they have won men's and women's race respectively at the 2011 London Marathon on 17 April 2011.^[5]

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• Ibrahim Hussein from Kenya won the Boston Marathon, an annual marathon hosted by the U.S. city of Boston and apparently world's oldest annual marathon, on April 18, 1988. He was the first Kenyan and African to win this prestigious event.^[6]

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• Kenyan crime thriller Nairobi Half Life on 20 April 2013 won the Best Achievement In Sound award at the 9th Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) held in the Yenagoa capital of Bayelsa State, Nigeria.^[7]

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• Kenyan long-distance runner Priscah Jeptoo won the women's title at the 33rd London Marathon on 21 April 2013 in 2 hours, 20 minutes and 15 seconds.^[8]

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• Kenya proved yet again to be a giant of the marathon world. At the 2012 London Marathon, Kenya's Wilson Kipsang won the men's elite race with a time of 2:04:44 and Mary Keitany, also from Kenya, defended her title with a time of 2:18:37.^[9]

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• Samson Parashina, a Maasai warrior from Kenya, was named as one of the winners of the 2012 United Nations Champions of the Earth award for showing amazing commitment to developing sustainable green economy models for Kenya’s Kuku Group Ranch, land communally owned by the Maasai community.^[10]

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• The Kenyan Lakes System within The Great Rift Valley was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2011. It contains evaporating lakes - often just reduced to saline pans and is particularly known for being home to a large number of wading birds and flamingos.^[11]

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• Fort Jesus in Mombasa, Kenya was listed in the UNESCO world heritage list on June 27, 2011. The Fort, built by the Portuguese in 1593-1596 to the designs of Giovanni Battista Cairati to protect the port of Mombasa, is one of the most outstanding and well preserved examples of 16th Portuguese military fortification and a landmark in the history of this type of construction. It also contains Omani Arab and British influences. ^[12]

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• Maji Mazuri Centre International from Nairobi was announced as one of the recipients of the 2012 United Nations World Environment Day Challenge prize for their initiative Green Heroes, in which youth focus on organizing and improving waste management in the Kenyan capital’s informal Mathare settlement.^[13]

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• Anthropologists led by Dr Meave Leakey of the Turkana Basin Institute in Nairobi discovered three human fossils that are between 1.78 and 1.95 million years old from Northern Kenya show that a new species of human lived two million years ago. The research was published in the journal Nature on 8 August 2012.^[14]

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• Edna Kiplagat of Kenya won the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships 2011, in dramatic fashion, after recovering from a tumble in the marathon.^[15]

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• Professor Mary Abukutsa of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology was awarded by the African Union for her research on production of indigenous vegetables in poor countries, and her work as a determined promoter of agricultural biodiversity at the 11th anniversary ceremony of the Union on 9 September 2010.^[16]

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• Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya won the 39th Berlin Marathon men's race in two hours four minutes and 15 seconds on 30 September 2012.^[17]

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• Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmental and political activist, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace. Maathai had been promoting ecologically viable social, economic and cultural development in Kenya and in Africa.^[18]

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• Bridge International Academies, is the global leader in providing high quality, low-cost pre-primary and primary education to children of parents living under $2 per day in emerging markets, operates more than 80 academies in Kenya with over 25,000 active students in its programs was announced one of the winners at the 2012 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship presented by African Leadership Network.^[19]

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• Kenyan Jonathan Chesoo won the 35th Annual Melbourne Marathon with a time of 2:12.35 on 14 October 2012.^[20]
• Lorna Rutto from Kenya was announced as one of the winners of the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards 2011 for her creative business idea of making fence posts from plastic waste, an environmentally friendly alternative to timber.^[21]

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• Kenyan long distance runner Geoffrey Mutai won the 2011 New York City Marathon mens event on November 6, 2011. Over 45,000 runners competed at the 26.2-mile marathon.^[22]

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• Kenya was elected on the United Nations Human Rights Council on 12 November 2012 for a three-year term. The council was created by the UN General Assembly in 2006 as the main human rights body of the UN.^[23]

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• The National Social Security Fund of Kenya was presented with the Good Practice Award for Africa by the International Social Security Association (ISSA) on 18 November 2008. Initiatives to improve the administration of social security in Kenya earned them the award.^[24]

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• Independence Day of Kenya. Kenya gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1963.

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