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TransportationAirports World Ranking: 31
194 (2012)
Airports - with paved runways
Total 15
Over 3,047 m 4 2,438 to 3,047 m 2 1,524 to 2,437 m 3 914 to 1,523 m 5 Under 914 m 1 (2012) Airports - with unpaved runways
Total 179
1,524 to 2,437 m 14 914 to 1,523 m 110 Under 914 m 55 (2012) Pipelines
Oil 4 km; refined products 928 km (2010) Railways World Ranking: 71
Total 2,066 km
Narrow gauge 2,066 km 1.000-m gauge (2008) Roadways World Ranking: 31
Total 160,886 km
Paved 11,197 km Unpaved 149,689 km (2008) Waterways
None specifically the only significant inland waterway in the country is the part of Lake Victoria within the boundaries of Kenya; Kisumu is the main port and has ferry connections to Uganda and Tanzania (2011) Merchant marine World Ranking: 125
Registered in other countries
5 (Comoros 2, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2, unknown 1) (2010) Ports and terminals
Kisumu, Mombasa
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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 (NARC), defeated KANU candidate Uhuru KENYATTA and assumed the presidency following a campaign centered on an anticorruption platform. KIBAKI's NARC coalition splintered in 2005 over a constitutional review process. Government defectors joined with KANU to form a new opposition coalition, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), which defeated the government's draft constitution in a popular referendum in November 2005. KIBAKI's reelection in December 2007 brought charges of vote rigging from ODM candidate Raila ODINGA and unleashed two months of violence in which as many as 1,500 people died. UN-sponsored talks in late February 2008 produced a power-sharing accord bringing ODINGA into the government in the restored position of prime minister. Kenya in August 2010 adopted a new constitution that eliminates the role of prime minister after the next presidential election.