Poland in Kenya

On 11th November at the Muthaiga Country Club in Nairobi on the occasion of the National Independence Day, an exhibition about Poles in Africa in the years 1942-1952 was organized. The event was attended by the Polish community abroad, ambassadors of EU countries, and Kenyan friends.

We kindly inform you that on Monday, November 1, 2021 and Thursday, November 11, 2021, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Nairobi and its Consular Section will be closed due to All Saints Day and National Independence Day respectively, which are declared public holidays in the Republic of Poland.

We kindly inform you that on Monday, October 11, 2021 and Wednesday, October 20, 2021, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Nairobi and its Consular Section will be closed due to Huduma Day and Mashujaa Day respectively, which are declared public holidays in the Republic of Kenya.

On September 13th at the Nairobi National Vaccine Depot, 211,200 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine have officially been transferred to Kenya.

Recently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been receiving reports of phone scams in which fraudsters claim to be either MFA’s employees or employees of Polish missions abroad to get the call recipients perform certain actions, especially money transfers. Usually, during the phone conversation scammers will inform you that you have failed to follow certain procedures or provided partial or false data while filling out forms, which will allegedly bring about legal consequences.

We kindly inform you that on Tuesday, July 20, 2021, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Nairobi and its Consular Section will be closed due to Eid al-Adha, which was declared a public holiday in the Republic of Kenya.

On July 11, 2021, the ambassadors of Poland and Hungary unveiled a plaque in the Tamarind Village hotel and restaurant complex in Mombasa, commemorating a duo of architects – Mr. Zbigniew Trzebiński and Mr. Tibor Gáll, who jointly designed several dozen hotels in Kenya in the second half of the 20th century.

We invite you to read the conversation with Frederic Musisi in which Ambassador Jacek Bazański talks about the Polish presidency of the Visegrád Group and cooperation within the V4, primarily in the East African context, as well as he discusses broader Polish-Ugandan relations in the areas of political, economic, development and cultural cooperation.