Shortly before Air Force One touched down in Nairobi for a historic first-ever visit to Kenya by a serving US President, history was being made in Zanzibar where an association of former African heads of state was born during the 2015 edition of the Global Peace Leadership Conference.
The new baby christened “Africa Leadership Mission on Peace Building” is the first of its kind in Africa. It was midwifed by Zanzibar’s former president Amani Karume, Rupia Banda (Zambia) and Kenya’s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.