Wajir
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| county | Wajir County | ||
| Residents | 32,237 pop. | ||
| height | 250 m | ||
| Coordinates | 1 ° 45 ′ N , 40 ° 4 ′ E | ||
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Wajir is the capital of the eponymous county in Kenya with around 33,000 inhabitants.
Today in Wajir mainly Somali people from the clans of the Ajuran , Degodia and Ogadeni Darod live .
In addition to various schools, Wajir has the Wajir District Hospital, restaurants, hotels, a bus station and an orphanage. The Muslim majority of the population has a mosque and a Koran school . The Roman Catholic population belongs to the Garissa diocese . The Consolata missionaries established a base for their order in Wajir.
Wajir was particularly hard hit by the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa in 2006 , after an outbreak of diarrhea and measles , in addition to the generally poor nutritional situation . In the same year, the future US President Barack Obama visited the region.
The International Astronomical Union named a Martian crater after Wajir.
sons and daughters of the town
- Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (1964–2011), peace activist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ken Menkhaus: The rise of a mediated state in northern Kenya: the Wajir story and its implications for state-building , in: Afrika Focus , Vol. 21/2, 2008
- ↑ Obama draws crowds on slum tour , in: BBC News, Aug. 27, 2006