Nairobi hit top ten most dangerous cities in the world.

[The Spit]

Last time i saw a thread in JF claiming that Kenya is more peaceful than Tanzania.
Then today I was left wondering how did Nairobi make it in this list....

9. Nairobi, Kenya
> GDP per capita: $807.50 (32nd lowest)
> Adult literacy rate: 73.6%
> Adult mortality rate per 1,000: 387
> Population living on < $1 per day: 19.7%According to the UN, nearly 20% of the population of Kenya lives on less than $1 per day. The country has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world, and GDP per capita is just over $800, compared to the estimated $46,860 in the U.S. While crime is high throughout the country, it is particularly bad in the capital city of Nairobi. Violent crimes, including carjacking, kidnapping and home invasion, occur regularly and are often fatal. According to the U.S. State Department, “In early 2007, two U.S. citizens were killed and one critically injured in two separate carjacking incidents. Nairobi averages about 10 vehicle hijackings per day and Kenyan authorities have limited capacity to deter and investigate such acts.” Nairobi also is known to be a hotbed for scams targeting tourists.

Read more: The Most Dangerous Cities in the World - 24/7 Wall St. The Most Dangerous Cities in the World - 24/7 Wall St.​

 

[rosemarie]

wapelekee wakenya kwenye site zao haituhusu hapa

 

[Saint Ivuga]

wapelekee wakenya kwenye site zao haituhusu hapa

sio kweli mkuu....

 

[sam2000]

Kweli kabisa haitufai hapa hata kidogo!

 

[Smatta]

wapelekee wakenya kwenye site zao haituhusu hapa

hehehe Director banaa, daaaah.. yani chuki ulionayo mpaka wakaa mjinga, dunia ya sasa tunadiscuss kila kitu aise.. nina uhakika umeadhiriwa na ujamaa lakini sikudhani inaweza kukufanya uwe mbumbumbu kiasi hadi hutaki kusikia kuhusu mwenzako.. wabongo bana.

Nairoberry at its best, unapelekwa shule ukizubaa huku mkuu

 

[Smatta]

Kweli kabisa haitufai hapa hata kidogo!

na wewe ndo nani tena aise.. funga macho usione, usitujazie thread na unafik wako, headline yenyewe inasema nairobi, kama hutaki kusoma unawacha, sio lazima eti.

 

[UmkhontoweSizwe]

Subiri kina Smatta watakuja kulitetea jiji lao.

 

[TIMING]

kenya sio peaceful zaidi yetu by any standard labda kwenye kukubali kuwa ardhi yao ni ya wanasiasa

 

[Mwali]

Hii hali si Hussein Ally aliikomesha, imerudi tena? Au ni statistics za zamani?

 

[kshaka]

couple of things;

24/7 Wall St. reviewed travel warnings issued by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs. These reports detail the type of crime or violence in the area, including whether Americans are being targeted.

In early 2007, two U.S. citizens were killed and one critically injured in two separate carjacking incidents

So now cities are judged on the basis of whether Americans are killed or not? Is that why Ciudad Juarez is not on the list?

In the year before August 2009, Juárez's murder rate was the highest reported in the world, exceeding the holders of the second and third highest rates by more than 25%.......The violence generated by the drug war translated into more than 2,600 killings in 2008

So Nairobi is more dangerous than a city which had more murders in a year than the whole of Kenya (more than double, in fact), Is that because none of the 2,600 were American?


So, if Nairobi is that dangerous, why did the UN see it fit to upgrade its safety and security rating to a B last year...a development that rubbed quite a few on the UN gravy train the wrong way:lol:

Daniel Howden: UN loses benefits of 'Nai-robbery'

The Kenyan capital is the UN's third-largest headquarters after New York and Geneva, and the base of its environmental body, UNEP. However, the organisation has a somewhat uneasy relationship with Nairobi itself and chose long ago to retreat behind compound walls and into a world of UN supermarkets, recreational centres and armoured residential quarters.

The city beyond its walls was deemed to be too dangerous, which in bureaucratic speak meant a category C listing. This put the place on a par with Kinshasa, Bamako and Ouagadougou, which to anyone who lives here is odd in the extreme. Odder still that Johannesburg, with its considerable crime problem, merits an A ranking (Jo'burg also has more murders in a year than the whole of Kenya), seeming to suggest that the league is based on amenities rather than safety.

Nonetheless you would have thought there would be a loud if muffled cheer from Gigiri when staff were told that the Kenyan capital was now safe enough to merit an upgrade to B.

As ever it hasn't quite worked like that. The pretence that "Nai-robbery" is a seething hotbed of crime earns those hardy souls at the UN a tidy sum in risk allowances and the city's promotion to the B-league will cost staff up to $5,000 (£3,200) per person annually and a free trip home. :lol:

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[TIMING]

labda aishababu wameongeza threat

 

[King Kong III]

wapelekee wakenya kwenye site zao haituhusu hapa

Kwani kenya ilishajitoa kwa east africa?

 

[rosemarie]

hehehe Director banaa, daaaah.. yani chuki ulionayo mpaka wakaa mjinga, dunia ya sasa tunadiscuss kila kitu aise.. nina uhakika umeadhiriwa na ujamaa lakini sikudhani inaweza kukufanya uwe mbumbumbu kiasi hadi hutaki kusikia kuhusu mwenzako.. wabongo bana.

Nairoberry at its best, unapelekwa shule ukizubaa huku mkuu

Hivi kwenu hakuna site kama hizi na wewe?mbona mnapenda sana kujipendekeza kwetu?njaa bana!

 

[kenyata]

smataa waambie hao wabongo,wamechelewa sana hawa wajamaa

 

[YoungCorporate]

i like nairobi, just like any big city crime is at high rate! You can get anything counterfeit along river road. Dar is comparable small to have such crime level.

 

[VUVUZELA]

i like nairobi, just like any big city crime is at high rate! You can get anything counterfeit along river road. Dar is comparable small to have such crime level.

I do too, YC.
As a matter of fact NBO is more beautiful, bigger, cleaner, advanced and even modern than Dar or any Tanzanian city

 

[Geza Ulole]

i like nairobi, just like any big city crime is at high rate! You can get anything counterfeit along river road. Dar is comparable small to have such crime level.

Get your facts right Dar is bigger than Nairobi in size and populationwise! dar has over 1590 sq km vs 696 sq km and population around 3.5 mio residents vs 3.4 mio. residents in Nairobi

 

[VUVUZELA]

Get your facts right Dar is bigger than Nairobi in size and populationwise! dar has over 1590 sq km vs 696 sq km and population around 5 mio residents vs 3.5 mio. residents in Nairobi

I tend to disagree, mkuu!

 

[trachomatis]

I do too, YC.
As a matter of fact NBO is more beautiful, bigger, cleaner, advanced and even modern than Dar or any Tanzanian city

This was where it was heading to.. I knew it! Ha ha ha ha ha .... Ciao!

 

[The Quonquerer]

Siamini kwamba Nairobi ni kubwa kuliko Dar. Am not seeing any modernity in it. If anything Dar is growing faster than that Nairobbery.