Nairobi–Mombasa Road Nairobi–Mombasa Road The Nairobi–Mombasa Road, also Mombasa–Nairobi Road or A109 Road (Kenya) is the main road between Nairobi, Kenya's capital and largest city and Mombasa, the country's largest port city. The road is a component of the Northern Corridor. The road starts in the city of Nairobi, at the confluence of "Langata Road", "Uhuru Highway" and "Lusaka Road", immediately west of "DHL House". It continues in a general southeasterly direction, through seven Kenya Counties to end in the city of Mombasa at the confluence of "Digo Road", "Langoni Road" and "Abdel Nasser Road", a total distance of about . The
Mombasa Segeju and went home. This stimulated the Portuguese to take over Mombasa a third time in 1589, and four years later they built Fort Jesus to administer the region. Between Lake Malawi and the Zambezi mouth, Kalonga Mzura made an alliance with the Portuguese in 1608 and fielded 4,000 warriors to help defeat their rival Zimba, who were led by chief Lundi. After the building of Fort Jesus Mombasa was put by the Portuguese under the rule of members of the ruling family of Malindi. In 1631 Dom Jeronimo the ruler of Mombasa slaughtered the Portuguese garrison in the city