Member states of NATO members and three former Yugoslav republics) from 12 March 1999 to 5 June 2017. NATO has added new members seven times since its founding in 1949, and since 2017 NATO has had 29 members. Twelve countries were part of the founding of NATO: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 1952, Greece and Turkey became members of the Alliance, joined later by West Germany (in 1955) and Spain (in 1982). In 1990, with the reunification of Germany, NATO grew to include the former country of East Germany. Between
Daily Nation Daily Nation The Daily Nation is the highest circulation Kenyan independent newspaper with 170,000 copies. "The Daily Nation" was started in 1958 as a Swahili weekly called "Taifa" by the Englishman Charles Hayes. It was bought in 1959 by the Aga Khan, and became a daily newspaper, "Taifa leo" (Swahili for "Nation today"), in January 1960. An English language edition called "Daily Nation" was published on 3 October 1960, in a process organised by former editor of the British "News Chronicle", Michael Curtis. The publisher was East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, which later became the Nation Media Group with