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Mwangi
@MwangiMaina_
Award-Winning African Journalist. Focus on Kenyan Foreign Policy and Africa. Twiplomacy. Fact Checker. Nairobian. Target is to visit all 55 African states.
Nov 4, 2023 • 38 tweets • 7 min read
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. Image 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...
Mar 13, 2023 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
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.
Mar 10, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
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 Image 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?
Sep 30, 2022 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
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. Image His predecessor, General Mwathethe was from the Navy. The next military boss will come from the airforce. They never skip ranks in the military. Image
Sep 21, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
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…” Image “…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.” Image
Sep 21, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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