"We will sit with them and make our contribution not as dependents but as partners with them," he said as he briefed the media on the session with the G7 leaders. One of the reasons, President Kenyatta said, was the key role that African countries have played in the fight against terrorism. Chancellor Merkel, it was understood, extended a personal invitation to President Kenyatta at the meeting. PHOTO | JONATHAN ERNST | AFPFOOD SECURITYItaly’s Oxfam executive director Roberto Barbieri urged G7 leaders to focus of finding a solution to food insecurity in the same manner they tackled insecurity. "The G7 leaders have been absent without leave on some of the biggest issues of our age.

Source: Daily Nation May 27, 2017 15:33 UTC