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Kenya requires a foreign policy grounded on reality not rhetoric

President William Ruto delivers Kenya’s statement at the UN general assembly New York, USA. [PCS]

When President William Ruto strode into the United Nations General Assembly last month, he did so with the confidence of a man eager to brand himself as Africa’s “chief diplomat.” His speeches were long, his handshakes many and his hashtags trending.

But just as he tried to project himself as a continental statesman, US President Donald Trump casually lumped Kenya and Somalia in the same sentence as places America would no longer “police.” 

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