Eyes of Kenyans, among other nations, are currently focused on African Union Chairperson election as different parties meet to vote in another chairperson.
Monday afternoon, Kenyan Foreign Secretary Ambassador Amina Mohamed’s will be among other four in prayers and hopeful of securing chairmanship of the African Union Commission.
She will face off with increasingly growing competition from her counterpart in Chad, Moussa Faki Mahamat, who is touted to be her strongest competition yet.
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday met with his Namibian counterpart Hage Geingob as Kenya intensified the final lap of lobbying ahead of African Union elections today.
The President’s meeting on the sidelines of the AU Summit in Addis Ababa was meant to discuss “bilateral issues”, according to his team.
But at the back of his mind is the imminent elections in which Kenya’s Foreign Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed is seeking to become the chairperson of the AU.