Kenya and Djibouti failed to reach an agreement on who would be nominated from the eastern Africa region. The winner between Kenya and Djibouti will have to garner a two-thirds vote of UN member states to make it to the UNSC. Djibouti has countered Kenya’s peace and security bona fides by stating it has a high per capita peacekeeping footprint. SELF-INTERESTA downside for Kenya is that its diplomatic capacity has often been too self-interested for the comfort of other African nations. But there are lots of factors to show that Kenya has equally strong ties economic and security ties with these powers.

Source: Daily Nation June 14, 2020 10:41 UTC