Poland in Kenya

We kindly inform you that on January 1, 2020 as well as January 6, 2020 the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Nairobi and its Consular Section will be closed due to the New Year's Day and Epiphany, which both are public holidays observed in Poland.

Project entitled "Endowment of Wanda Błeńska’s Wanda Matugga Health Center with equipment necessary to launch its medical activity" is co-financed by Polish Aid - the Polish development cooperation programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.

We kindly inform you that on December 12, 2019 as well as December 25 to 27, 2019 the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Nairobi and its Consular Section will be closed due to the Kenya Idependence Day and Christmas, which are public holidays observed in Kenya and in Poland respectively.

Olga Tokarczuk, Polish writer and activist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”

Eighty years ago, German aggression on Poland started the Second World War. In the early hours of 1 September 1939, troops of the German Reich crossed the Polish-German border. Polish Army put up military resistance and expected the Allies’ reaction. On 3 September 1939, France and the UK declared war on the German Reich but did not take any real military action. Poland’s tragic fate was sealed on 17 September 1939 when the Soviet Union launched the invasion of Poland from the East. The attack of the German Reich and the Soviet Union resulted from the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed by the two totalitarian regimes, a secret protocol to which effectively divided Central Europe into the so-called spheres of influence.

On Friday, May 12, the staff of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Nairobi organized a concert for the Polish community and diplomatic corpus.