Kenya was the darling of the West when AmbMKimani stood up for Ukraine at the UN last year. A year later, President WilliamsRuto is now playing both sides.
The surprise visit by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Nairobi on 29 May caught many by surprise.
In several previous trips to the continent since the beginning of the year, Russia’s top diplomat had avoided Kenya after the east African country’s envoy to the UN slammed the invasion of Ukraine at the Security Council in February 2022. In his address to the council, Martin Kimani had called on Russia to respect Ukraine’s borders by invoking Africa’s colonial past to highlight the dangers of stoking the “embers of dead empires”.
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