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Kenya now wants SADC to drop bid for AU chair

Kenya's Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed. (Photo: Maxwell Agwanda/Standard)

Kenya is lobbying southern African countries to support Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed's candidature as the next African Union Commission chairperson.

Sources privy to closed-door discussions between President Uhuru Kenyatta and visiting South African President Jacob Zuma revealed that Kenya was pushing to have Botswana's Foreign minister, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, who has also declared an interest in the position, to shelve his ambitions.

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