President Emmanuel Macron of France Wednesday vowed to establish security and environment cooperation between his country and Kenya as he kicked off the third and last leg of his East African tour that brought him to Djibouti and Ethiopia. “We want to improve cooperation in the region from the security and defense point of view,” Macron said after meeting with his host President Uhuru Kenyatta. He is the first French President to visit Kenya since it gained independence in 1960. Kenya is part of the UN-backed African multinational forces backing the fragile Somalian government in battle against the al-Qaeda-linked group. The African country delivered “tremendous results in the fight against climate change,” he pointed out.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 14, 2019 01:18 UTC