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President Uhuru Kenyatta (centre) and immediate former Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete (right) congratulate Tanzanian President John Magufuli at State House, Dar es Salaam in November last year. Kenya and Tanzania have had a chequered history.
On January 9, 2005, the world watched as the then US Secretary of State Colin Powell presided over the signing of a peace deal.
The pact was between Sudan’s Vice President Ali Osman Taha and the late John Garang, the leader of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement (SPLA), and the location was State House, Nairobi.
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