Biggest loser in all this? Musalia Mudavadi. Kenya’s foreign policy missteps have left him as the top diplomat cleaning up messes, only for Ruto to burn everything down.

Diplomatic own goals.

🧵 It started with Rwandan-backed M23.

Kenya hosted the militia leaders during the creation of Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC), a military-politico outfit aimed at overthrowing the government in Kinshasa—DRC saw it as betrayal and struck back, hard.

Multiple #Kenyan based journalists have raised concern's about racial undertones during the @RoyalFamily visit.

Those who I have spoken to say they were mistreated and felt degraded in their own country. A sovereign country, so to say.

Thread. I will headline it as Segregated Press Buses, Stale Sandwiches & Used Toothpicks: Behind the Scenes of a Well-Choreographed but Tone-Deaf Royal Visit to #Kenya.

Journalists have complained of being segregated from their British counterparts during pool transportation...

PROTEST NOTE: #Rwandan leader @PaulKagame has written to the @_AfricanUnion chairperson, Comoros President @PR_AZALI questioning the manner in which some sessions of the just concluded AU Summit were handled. The letter sent on 3rd March has been copied to all African leaders. Pres. @PaulKagame, who was appointed by the AU to lead it's institutional reforms in July 2016 argues that at the assembly, leaders mandated to issue topical reports are not timed referring to interjections made when the Sierra Leone & Ghanaian Presidents were submitting.

Kenya's Trade Minister @HonMoses_Kuria was in Doha, Qatar last week for an official mission. Interestingly he was escorted by two mysterious #Belarusian businessmen accused of engaging in arms deals in Africa. They were designated as "Advisors-Gulf Countries" during the trip These two powerful brokers, Aleksandr ZINGMAN and OLEG VODCHITS were arrested in Lubumbashi in 2021 on charges of arms trafficking. The have previously had links with presidents Joseph Kabila, Edward Lungu and Emerson Mnangagwa.

What exactly are they doing in Kenya?

The Tonje rules recommend that the CDF position should rotate between Army, Air force and Navy. The current holder of the office, General Kibochi- a four star general is from the Kenya Army. His predecessor, General Mwathethe was from the Navy. The next military boss will come from the airforce. They never skip ranks in the military.

NEW YORK: #Kenya’s President @WilliamsRuto #UNGA speech

“We are all witnesses to admirable demonstrations of effective solidarity in response to crises in various parts of the world. Our knowledge of the possibility of spontaneous yet resolute global solidarity reinforces…” “…the African exception as particularly repugnant. From genocides and civil conflict to famine and pandemics, the African continent is consistently left behind to bear the brunt of weak solidarity and disastrous failure of multilateralism.”

NEW YORK: #Kenya's President @WilliamsRuto taking the stage for his maiden speech as the Head of State at #UNGA77 President Ruto: Kenya stands ready to work with other nations on Pan-Africanisation