Nairobi

Definition: Nairobi

Nairobi

Noun

1. The capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Geography

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Nairobi

Crosswords: Nairobi

Portuguese (Nairobi), Spanish (Nairobi), Swahili (Nairobi).

African skies with Nairobi mood (Runaway; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Nairobi Affair (1984)

Song of the Nairobi Trio (Solfeggio) (performing artist: His Harp and Orchestra Robert Maxwell)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A City of Farmers: Informal Urban Agriculture in the Open Spaces of Nairobi, Kenya (reference)

• Grass Roots in an African City: Political Behavior in Nairobi (reference)

• Nairobi to Vancouver 1975-1983 (reference)

• Quitting the Nairobi Trio (reference)

• That Nairobi Affair (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Midnight at the Nairobi Room (reference)

• Nairobi Beat: Kenyan Pop Music Today (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Two men of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Patrol examining papers of an African cyclist, Nairobi, Kenya. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

Both networks have coverage over the four principal cities of Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu and Nakuru as well as their environs, with plans to extend to other parts of the country. (references)

The few organizations doing so are obliged to source VSAT terminal equipment from local vendors of VSAT equipment from Hughes Network Systems, the US equipment manufacturer from whom Telkom procured their VSAT hub located at Kericho, 300 kilometers west of Nairobi. (references)

PSL, which controls 80% of the market, has provided paging services since 1993 and has operations in six cities (Nairobi, Mombasa, Eldoret, Kisumu, Nakuru and Nyeri) with a customer base of about 7,000. Capital Pagers was licensed in August 1998 and is operational in Nairobi only, using broadcasting infrastructure owned by its parent company Capital Radio. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kenya

However, many refugees live illegally outside the camps, especially in Nairobi. (references)

Kenya

A UNHCR eligibility committee in Nairobi performs a similar function for individuals of other nationalities. (references)

Kenya

Citizen claimed that the shutdown, which only affected its operations outside Nairobi, was motivated politically. (references)

Economic History

Kenya

Nairobi area has special status. (references)

Kenya

Nairobi continues to be the primary hub of East Africa. (references)

Kenya

In 1995, foreigners were allowed to invest in the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE). (references)

Human Rights

Djibouti

The ICRC regional representative, who is based in Nairobi, makes quarterly visits. (references)

Kenya

For lesser charges, free legal aid rarely is available, and then only in Nairobi and other major cities. (references)

Kenya

The investigations were ongoing at year's end into the September 1999 killings of Mwanzia Mutkuku and of two armed men at a Nairobi bank. (references)

Political Economy

ARGENTINA

Argentina is a signatory to the Paris Convention, Berne Convention, Rome Convention, Phonograms Convention, Nairobi Treaty, Film Register Treaty, and the Universal Copyright Convention. (references)

BULGARIA

Bulgaria is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and a signatory to the following agreements: the Paris Convention for the Protection of Intellectual Property; the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcast Organizations; the Geneva Phonograms Convention; the Madrid Agreement for the Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of Source of Goods; the Madrid Agreement on the International Classification and Registration of Trademarks; the Patent Cooperation Treaty; the Universal Copyright Convention; the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works; the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration; the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purpose of Patent Protection; the Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol, the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants; the Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks; the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks; the Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification; and the Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs. (references)

Trade

Kenya

Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya's main trading cities, have sufficiently large warehousing facilities. (references)

Travel

Kenya

The capital city is Nairobi. (references)

Kenya

Health: Adequate medical services are available in Nairobi. (references)

Kenya

Student demonstrations in Nairobi have become increasingly common. (references)

Women

Kenya

According to the Government, 1,199 cases of rape were reported to the police in Nairobi during the year, compared with 1,148 in 2000. The available statistics probably underreport the number of incidents, as social mores deter women from going outside their families or ethnic groups to report sexual abuse. (references)

Worker Rights

Uganda

In December 1999, in Nairobi, Kenya, the Governments of Sudan and Uganda signed an accord agreeing, among other things, to cease supporting rebel groups and to return abductees. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "Nairobi": Nairobi bleeding disease ♦ Nairobi Sheep Disease ♦ Nairobi Sheep Disease Viruses. Additional references.

Chinese 

內羅畢 , 内罗毕. (various references)

Danish

Nairobi. (various references)

Dutch

Nairobi. (various references)

Finnish

Nairobi. (various references)

French

Nairobi. (various references)

German

Nairobi. (various references)

Greek 

Ναϊρόμπι. (various references)

Italian

Nairobi. (various references)

Korean 

나이로비. (various references)

Pig Latin

airobinay.(various references)

Portuguese

Nairobi. (various references)

Russian 

найроби. (various references)

Spanish

Nairobi. (various references)

Swahili

nairobi. (various references)

Swedish

Nairobi. (various references)

Misspellings

"Nairobi" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akirebi, Kairoi, Nairab, Noribic, Nyiro, Warioba. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: bairn, baron, brain, noria, oribi, robin.

-3 letters: abri, airn, bani, barn, boar, bora, born, bran, brin, brio, inia, inro, iron, naoi, noir, nori, obia, rain, rani, roan.

-4 letters: abo, ain, air, ani, arb, ban, bar, bin, bio, boa, bra, bro, ion, nab, nib, nob, nor, oar, obi, ora, orb, ran, ria, rib, rin.

+2 letters: aborigine, libration, vibration.

+3 letters: aboriginal, aborigines, arborizing, liberation, librations, parboiling, riboflavin, vibrations.

+4 letters: aboriginals, abortionist, ambiversion, arabinoside, arbitration, attribution, bacteriocin, bifurcation, billionaire, bioregional, bipartition, brachiation, brecciation, broadsiding, brominating, bromination, calibration, carbonizing, fabrication, fimbriation, hibernation, imbrication, inebriation, libationary, liberations, librational, lubrication, mislaboring, nimbostrati, panbroiling, prelibation, rainbowlike, reobtaining, riboflavins, rubrication, tribulation, vibrational.

+5 letters: abbreviation, abolitionary, aboriginally, abortionists, aerobicizing, ambiversions, anaerobiosis, antiabortion, antithrombin, arabinosides, arbitrations, arborization, attributions, bacteriocins, barricadoing, bifurcations, billboarding, billionaires, binocularity, biodegrading, biometrician, bipartitions, bipolarizing, boardsailing, brachiations, brecciations, brominations, calibrations, charbroiling, daunorubicin, deliberation, enterobiasis, fabrications, fiberization, fibrillation, fimbriations, hebraization, hibernations, honorability, imbrications, inebriations, insalubrious, interorbital, lubrications, nonlibrarian, nonlibraries, nonmicrobial, obliterating, obliteration, obstetrician, prelibations, proboscidian, robotization, rubrications, sailboarding, strobilation, suberization, tribulations, urbanisation, urbanization, vibraphonist.