Kenya’s decision to facilitate a Sudan militia group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), to declare the establishment a parallel government is sending shock waves in political and diplomatic circles.

Some observers have termed it unfortunate that Nairobi, which chairs the East African Community, was taking sides when the country should be playing its role of a neutral arbiter and allow the creation of an all-inclusive government in Khartoum.

By allowing RSF to sign its charter to form a government in Nairobi this week, the Kenya Kwanza administration may have committed a "reckless diplomatic blunder.".