Angorangora | |
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  Angorangora Location of Angorangora | |
| Coordinates: 2°38′N35°24′E / 2.63°N 35.4°E Coordinates: 2°38′N35°24′E / 2.63°N 35.4°E | |
| Country | Kenya |
| Province | Rift Valley Province |
| Population | |
| • Total | 134 (estimated) |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
Angorangora is a settlement in Kenya's Turkana County. [1] It has an estimated population of 134 people. [2]
Before the Kenyan general election in 2013, Angorangora voted as part of the Rift Valley Province.
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Lake Baringo is, after Lake Turkana, the most northern of the Kenyan Rift Valley lakes, with a surface area of 130 square kilometres (50 sq mi) and an elevation of 970 metres (3,180 ft). The lake is fed by several rivers: the Molo, Perkerra and Ol Arabel. It has no obvious outlet; the waters are assumed to seep through lake sediments into the faulted volcanic bedrock. It is one of the two freshwater lakes in the Rift Valley in Kenya, the other being Lake Naivasha.
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Eldoret is a principal town in the Rift Valley region of Kenya and serves as the capital of Uasin Gishu County. The town is known to the white settlers as Farm 64, 64 or and colloquially by locals as 'Sisibo'. As per the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census, Eldoret is the fifth most populated urban area in the country after Nairobi, Mombasa, Nakuru and Ruiru. Lying south of the Cherangani Hills, the local elevation varies from about 2100 meters at the airport to more than 2700 meters in nearby areas (7000–9000 feet). The population was 289,380 in the 2009 Census, and it is currently the fastest growing town in Kenya with 475,716 people according to 2019 National Census. Eldoret was on course to be named Kenya's fourth city, but was edged out by Nakuru in 2021.
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East Africa had a regional outbreak of Rift Valley fever in late 2006 that affected Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. During outbreak, 1062 people were infected with Rift Valley fever and 394 people died between December 2006 and December 2007. Rift Valley fever (RVF) is caused by a phlebovirus in the Bunyavirales order which is transmitted by mosquito bite and contact with infected animal blood; it mainly infects livestock that come into infectious contact with a viral reservoir but human beings can also be infected. The outbreak began after a heavy El Niño rain season across East Africa left greater than usual breeding ground for Aedes aegypti mosquitos, with particularly heavy rainfall over eastern Kenya, central Tanzania, and southern Somalia. While most people infected with the virus experience a relatively mild, flu-like illness without hospitalization, around 8% will develop a severe illness that can include eye disease, encephalitis, hemorrhagic fever and death. During this outbreak, of the 1,062 hospitalized, laboratory-confirmed RVF cases assays, 37% died.
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