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27-588: Rongai is a town in Nakuru County , Kenya . It lies 30 km west of Nakuru , along the A104 Road and the railway line between Nakuru and Uganda . It is about 10 kilometres north of Elburgon and 15 kilometres east of Molo . The town lies 1912 m (6272 ft) above sea level and has a population of 20878. Rongai is part of the Rongai Constituency . It is served by a station on

54-640: A City Charter status to Nakuru , ranking it with Nairobi , Mombasa , and Kisumu as the cities in Kenya . With a population of 2,162,202 (2019 census), it is the third most populous county in Kenya after Nairobi County and Kiambu County , in that order. With an area of 7,496.5 km ,  it is Kenya's 19th largest county in size. Until 21 August 2010, it formed part of Rift Valley Province . Religion in Nakuru County Nakuru County

81-460: A commitment to dispute resolution. The accord was signed by the communities as an agreement to prevent future violence. Kenya is populated by an estimated 42 ethnic communities primarily from the Bantu , Nilotic and Cushotic language families. Ethnic consciousness materialized and hardened under British colonial rule (c. 1895 - 1963) which endowed ethnicity as a social phenomenon with importance in

108-680: A history of violence in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. It was signed following a 16-month-long peace process led by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission and the National Steering Committee on Peace Building and Conflict Management The county has eleven constituencies which are represented in the Parliament of Kenya : Nakuru County was seen as the epicenter of violence in the aftermath of

135-482: A series of agreements brokered by the African Union Panel of Eminent African Personalities between President Mwai Kibaki and opposition candidate Raila Odinga . The Panel, led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan , began formal negotiations between the principals on 29 January 2008 which would go on to discuss four agenda items: On 28 February 2008, Kibaki and Odinga signed an agreement to install

162-614: A transitional power-sharing government, ending the immediate political crisis and paving the way for legislation like the National Accord and Reconciliation Act (2008) and the National Cohesion and Integration Act (2008). The latter act created the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) to undertake activities to eliminate discrimination and to further equality and peaceful coexistence of different ethnic and racial communities in Kenya. Given its mandate,

189-409: Is also surrounded by a nature reserve. The Rift Valley Institute of Science and Technology is a tourist attraction. The institute was established in 1979 by the leaders and people of Rift Valley. Surrounding towns include Lanet, which lies approximately 10 km from Nakuru. Lanet is predominantly a residential town and is home to an army base. Njoro is another urban town that lies 20 km in

216-399: Is home to Lake Nakuru , Lake Elmenteita and Lake Naivasha , which are some of the Rift Valley soda lakes. Lake Nakuru is best known for its thousands, sometimes millions of flamingoes nesting along the shores. The surface of the shallow lake is often hardly recognizable due to the continually shifting mass of pink. The number of flamingos on the lake varies with water and food conditions and

243-630: The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission , and the issue of land grievances to the work of the National Land Commission , a decision taken to facilitate immediate cooperation. The agreement outlined a code of conduct for the communities, and emphasized the need for immediate follow-up actions with an emphasis on outreach and popularization of the accord. Encouraged by the NCIC, the communities conducted joint public outreach to engage

270-645: The Kenyatta regime. In part of the Rift Valley region, Kikuyu communities settled in lands formerly inhabited by other ethnic groups, namely the Kalenjin and Maasai . Ethnic patronage politics grew in post-colonial Kenya, as the state became the main vehicle for social and economic mobility in the race for resources and access to power. This led to a system that would entrench and enrich some ethnic groups while establishing barriers to access for others. The structure of unequal access increased tensions amongst

297-533: The Leakeys in 1926, is considered a major Neolithic and Iron Age site. The adjoining museum features are from various nearby excavations. The second-largest surviving volcanic crater in the world, the Menengai Crater is 2500 meters above sea level at its highest point. The crater plunges 500 m down from the rim and the summit is accessible by foot or vehicle 8 km from the main road. The mountain

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324-582: The NCIC decided to engage in Nakuru County to stop the cycle of violence in the Rift Valley ahead of the elections scheduled for 2013. The NCIC and NSC began formal engagement in Nakuru County in April 2011, guided by an approach that focused on the two main protagonists in conflict, the Kikuyu and Kalenjin communities. The mediation team first engaged the elders of each community, in order to gain buy-in from

351-610: The Naivasha – Nakuru Highway to enjoy the beautiful and scenic escarpments of the Great Rift Valley. * 2009 census. Source: The Nakuru County Peace Accord (or "Rift Valley Peace Accord") refers to the peace agreement signed on 19 August 2012 between elders of the Agikuyu (see also Kikuyu ) and Kalenjin communities as well as other ethnic groups of Kenya. which was designed to address sources of ethnic conflict and

378-560: The best vantage point is from Baboon Cliff. Also of interest, an area of 188 km around the lake fenced off as a sanctuary to protect Rothschild giraffe and black rhinos. Other sites of interest around Nakuru include Menengai Crater, an extinct volcano 2,490 m (8,167 ft) high, and the Nakuru National Park which is a wildlife zone. The views of the crater itself, as well as the surrounding countryside, are spectacular. Hyrax Hill Prehistoric Site, discovered by

405-401: The disputed 2007 Presidential Elections which left over 1,100 people dead and over 300,000 displaced nationwide. Nakuru County Peace Accord The agreement was signed following a 16-month-long peace process led by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) to address sources of ethnic conflict and a history of violence in the rift valley region of Kenya. Nakuru County

432-488: The end of the process, the NCIC and NSC sought technical support from the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue for the drafting of the peace agreement, which included extensive input from the communities themselves. As described in the accord, the purpose of the agreement was “to acknowledge the issues between our communities in Nakuru County and to take our share of responsibility for dealing with them – peacefully.” The accord

459-492: The following weeks, the violence took on an ethnic dimension as politicians, businessmen, and others planned and organized the use of criminal gangs to carry out attacks. Between 27 December 2007 and 29 February 2008, 1,113 deaths were recorded by the Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence, 744 of which were reported from Rift Valley province. The Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation (KNDR) process refers to

486-514: The highlands and led to the creation of squatter settlements. In the first part of the 20th century, calls for freedom and land redistribution gathered momentum leading in part to the Mau Mau Uprising (1952-1960), and eventually to various land redistribution schemes by the colonial administration ahead of independence in 1963. One of these schemes, known as the million acre scheme , sought to buy large swathes of land from settlers for

513-444: The more powerful and revered members of each community. The team then engaged each community separately to gauge their interests and concerns, and to prepare them for eventual bilateral discussions between the Kikuyu and Kalenjin. Over the course of 16 months, elders from each community began to engage via working groups and an environment of understanding began to emerge after many meetings, including public apologies. Finally, toward

540-467: The national railway system. 00°10′00″S 35°51′00″E  /  0.16667°S 35.85000°E  / -0.16667; 35.85000 This Kenya location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nakuru County Nakuru County is a county in Kenya . It is county number 32 out of the 47 Kenyan counties. Nakuru County is a host to Kenya's Fourth City – Nakuru City. On 1 December 2021, President Uhuru Kenyatta awarded

567-402: The outskirts of Nakuru, and is a small agricultural town with a local university aimed at promoting agricultural development in Kenya , namely Egerton University (est. 1934). Naivasha is another major significant urban Centre in Nakuru County, which sits at the floor of the Great Rift Valley and serves as a major transit of goods. Travelers passing through Naivasha usually make stopovers along

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594-669: The purposes of settling the squatters in the region. The scheme took on an ethnic character as it reflected the makeup of Kenya's ethnic communities and especially the composition of the squatters, leading a large number of Kikuyu squatters to be settled in areas of the Rift Valley. Following independence in 1963, elites under the Jomo Kenyatta regime used their positions to redistribute land and purchase land titles. The environment benefited elites and those with access to land cooperatives, while disadvantaging those communities without recognized communal land rights and without access to

621-403: The societal hierarchy. The British colonial influence left two legacies linked to ethnicity: land grievances and patronage politics. Under British colonial policies, “white settler” populations confiscated close to 20% of Kenya's most productive farming land from local communities. This policy displaced a large number of Kenyan natives, caused an influx of immigrant laborers not previously from

648-553: The various ethnicities; but politicized ethnic violence was largely tamed under de facto one-party rule. However, since 1991 and the return to a multi-party democracy, old ethnic rivalries were politicized for political gain leading to ethnic violence in every election over the next two decades. On 30 December 2007, the Electoral Commission of Kenya announced Mwai Kibaki , of the Party of National Unity (PNU) as

675-506: The winner of Kenya's Presidential elections, amidst reports by international observers that tallying and compiling of votes had been manipulated. Initial violence seemed to be the result of a spontaneous response to the perceived election fraud, soon leading to the attacks in Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) stronghold areas (Nairobi slums, Eldoret, Kisumu, and Mombasa) against Kikuyus assumed to be PNU supporters. In

702-399: Was organized so as to acknowledge past violence; recognize the responsibilities of elders in each community, and to outline cooperation to prevent future violence from occurring especially around the 2013 elections. The agreement was a political commitment by the community elders to work to prevent violence in the future. As such, the process left the issue of justice and impunity to the work of

729-414: Was seen as the epicenter of violence in the aftermath of the disputed 2007 Presidential Elections which left over 1,100 people dead and over 350,000 displaced nationwide. Under the accord, the Agikuyu and Kalenjin elders signed a formal acknowledgment of past violence and antipathy between the communities, a code of conduct for communities in Nakuru County, a set of follow-up actions to be undertaken, and

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