Garissa District was an administrative district in the North Eastern Province of Kenya. The district is one the districts created by the British colonial government in 1963, carving it out of the then Northern Frontier District.[1] Its capital town was Garissa. The district had a population of 329,939. The district had an area of 44,952 km2.[2] before the Ijara District was split from it in 2002.
In 2013, Garissa County was formerly effected using the original boundaries of the district prior to the split.
^"Kenya Gazette dated 2nd April, 1963" (PDF). Gazettes.Africa. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
GarissaDistrict was an administrative district in the North Eastern Province of Kenya. The district is one the districts created by the British colonial...
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former administrative district in the North Eastern Province of Kenya. On May 20, 2000, it was carved out from the larger GarissaDistrict. It covered an area...
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northeastern GarissaDistrict. They are active in the cross-border cattle trade. In 1984 there was little rain. In search of grazing, Aulihan from Garissa District...
areas of Tana River hived off and combined with GarissaDistrict. In 1963, Tana River was one of the districts of the Coast Province of Kenya The major ethnic...
massacre of ethnic Somali residents by the Kenyan government in the GarissaDistrict of the North Eastern Province, Kenya. The incident occurred when Kenyan...
intercepted Islamist forces in the area of the Kenyan border town of Amuma, Garissadistrict. Seven vehicles were destroyed. A platoon of Kenyan border police were...
between Liboi, in Garissadistrict to Kiunga, Lamu district. Reports said ICU troops were split across Afmadow and Badade districts, and possibly concentrated...
the ICU leader had been arrested near the Dadaab refugee camp in the Garissadistrict of Kenya. On February 10, 2007, he was replaced as army chief-of-staff...
NFD was divided into five districts across two provinces: Marsabit and Isiolo in Eastern Province; Wajir, Mandera and Garissa in North Eastern Province...
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in Garissa County, Kenya. It was previously capital of the former Ijara District. It is located 100 km north of Lamu and 180 km south of Garissa. Ijara...
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diocese in 1985 and was itself split to create Kitui diocese in 1995, Garissa in 2007 and Makueni in 2013. Since 1992, the cathedral has been All Souls'...
Mohamed Dahir Duale (born 13 July 1962 in Garissa) is a Kenyan health professional and politician. He is a member of the Kenyan national Assembly from...
mosques in Yemen". Associated Press. Retrieved March 20, 2015. "Gunmen storm Garissa University College in Kenya; 30 people hospitalized". CNN. Retrieved April...
Thika is externally serviced by an eight-lane superhighway, a highway to Garissa and the rest of north-east Kenya, a highway to the central highlands and...
paramilitary wing of the police—and later the regular police. On the heels of the Garissa Massacre of 1980, Kenyan troops committed the Wagalla massacre in 1984...
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