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    evidence of its earliest volcanic activity, geologists estimate that Mount Elgon is at least 24 million years old, making it the oldest extinct volcano...
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    Mount Elgon National Park is a national park in Kenya and Uganda that lies 140 kilometres (87 mi) northeast of Lake Victoria. The park covers an area...
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    The Mount Elgon insurgency was a conflict that started in 2005 when the Sabaot Land Defence Force militia revolted in the Mount Elgon area, Western Kenya...
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  • Kitum Cave (category Mount Elgon)
    Kitum Cave is located in Mount Elgon National Park, Kenya. In the 1980s, two European visitors contracted Marburg virus disease there. It is one of five...
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  • Mount Elgon District (Mt. Elgon District) was an administrative district in the Western Province of Kenya. Its capital town was Kapsokwony. In 2010, it...
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  • Mount Elgon Constituency is an electoral constituency in Bungoma County, Western Kenya. It was formerly the only constituency in the now defunct Mount...
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  • The Elgon languages are languages of the Southern Nilotic Kalenjin family spoken in the Mount Elgon area in western Kenya and eastern Uganda. According...
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  • narratives from the various Kalenjin subtribes point to Tulwetab/Tulwop Kony (Mount Elgon) as their original point of settlement in Kenya. This point of origin...
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    General Staff he oversaw a large scale army operation in the restive Mount Elgon region after a near five year insurgency by the Sabaot Land Defence Force...
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    former Rift Valley Province, Kenya, located between the Nzoia River and Mount Elgon, 380 km northwest of Nairobi. At its centre is the town of Kitale which...
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  • Dorobo (or Ndorobo, Wadorobo, dorobo, Torobo) is a derogatory umbrella term for several unrelated hunter-gatherer groups of Kenya and Tanzania. They comprised...
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  • away from Washington, D.C. The book is in four sections: "The Shadow of Mount Elgon" delves into the history of filoviruses, as well as speculation about...
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    mountain in Africa, is Mount Kenya, standing at 5,199 metres (17,057 ft) tall. Seven of Kenya's mountains, Mount Kenya, Mount Elgon, Mount Satima, Chepunyal...
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    Mount Elgon, in Uganda, with views over the Karamoja plains. The falls are situated to the northeast of Sironko and Mbale, adjacent to Mount Elgon National...
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    operation was launched as an attempt to crush a three year insurgency in the Mount Elgon District by the Sabaot Land Defence Force and was successful. SLDF leader...
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  • groups that have settled on the slopes of Mount Elgon. The Sebei's live primarily on the slopes of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda. They number about 300...
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  • Sudek, Czech photographer Sudek peak, one of the five major peaks of Mount Elgon, located in Kenya 4176 Sudek, asteroid Saudek This disambiguation page...
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    Rift Valley and central Province home to the highest mountain, Mount Kenya and Mount Elgon on the border between Kenya and Uganda. The Kakamega Forest in...
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  • mountains in Uganda. Mount Stanley (5,109 m) Mount Elgon (4,321 m) Mount Moroto (3,083 m) Mount Kadam (3,063 m) Mount Morungole (2,750 m) Mount Zulia (2,149 m)...
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    formerly the Rift Valley Province in Kenya and the Eastern slopes of Mount Elgon in Uganda. They number 6,358,113 individuals per the Kenyan 2019 census...
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    East Africa - Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru in Tanzania, Mount Kenya, the Aberdare Range, and Cherangani Hills in Kenya, Mount Elgon on the Uganda/Kenya...
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    and his descendants moved out of Mumbo and settled on the foothills of Mount Elgon (known to them as Masaba), from where their descendants grew to form...
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  • The Mount Elgon forest gecko (Ancylodactylus elgonensis) is a species of gecko endemic to Kenya and Uganda. Wagner, P.; Safari, I.; Chenga, J. (2014)...
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  • Bamasaba live mainly in the Mbale District of Uganda on the slopes of Mount Elgon. The Bagisu are estimated to be about 1,646,904 people making up 4.9%...
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  • the Mount Elgon mole shrew (Surdisorex schlitteri) is a species of African mole shrew known to date only from the ericaceous zone of Mount Elgon in Western...
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    ELGON: POLICE ACTION IS AN AFFRONT TO THE, POWERS AND MANDATE OF KNCHR, A VIOLATION OF THE LAW AND AN ATTEMPT TO COVER UP THE TORTURE IN MT. ELGON" (PDF)...
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    The Mount Elgon vlei rat (Otomys jacksoni) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to Mount Elgon, an extinct volcano on the border...
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    Longitude:34.175000). The city is on the railway from Tororo to Pakwach. Mount Elgon, one of the highest peaks in East Africa, is approximately 48 kilometres...
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    engineer in a sugar factory in Nzoia (close to Bungoma) at the base of Mount Elgon (which contains Kitum Cave), became infected by unknown means and died...
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    (Da Mo) spent much time in meditation. Other such breast mountains are Mount Elgon on the Uganda–Kenya border; Beinn Chìochan and the Maiden Paps in Scotland;...
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