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Local authorities in Kenya are the bodies controlling local governance in urban areas in Kenya. From the 2013 general elections onwards Kenya will have three classes of local authorities: City , Municipality , and Town authorities.
The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is Europe's largest association of hackers [1] with 7,700 registered members. [2] Founded in 1981, the association is incorporated as an eingetragener Verein in Germany, with local chapters (called Erfa-Kreise) in various cities in Germany and the surrounding countries, particularly where there are German-speaking communities.
Kenya has five incorporated cities including the capital and largest city, Nairobi, the second-largest city of Mombasa, and the third-largest city, Kisumu.The fourth city to be awarded the status was Nakuru, which was upgraded from a municipality on 1 December 2021.
The municipal council consists of seventeen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nine wards , while the remaining eight are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
Cofounder of the Chaos Computer Club Herwart Holland-Moritz , known as Wau Holland , (20 December 1951 – 29 July 2001) was a German computer security activist and journalist who in 1981 cofounded the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), one of the world's oldest hacking clubs.
The Western Cape province of South Africa is divided, for local government purposes, into one metropolitan municipality (the City of Cape Town) and five district municipalities. The district municipalities are in turn divided into twenty-four local municipalities .
Kilindini Harbour in Mombasa, Kenya's second largest city and its historical gate to the Indian Ocean trade. The Jemaa el-Fnaa marketplace in the Moroccan Imperial city of Marrakech is an old commercial key to the Sahara. The following is a list of the 100 largest cities in Africa by urban population using the most recent official estimate ...
Cape Town first received local self-government in 1839, with the promulgation of a municipal ordinance by the government of the Cape Colony. [4] When it was created, the Cape Town municipality governed only the central part of the city known as the City Bowl, and as the city expanded, new suburbs became new municipalities, until by 1902 there were 10 separate municipalities in the Cape ...