President Uhuru Kenyatta has been endorsed as vice chairperson of the African Peer Review Forum of Heads of States and Governments. This is a new position in the Leadership of the forum and Kenya is the first country to serve in the position.
The current chairperson and president, Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is understandably focusing on containing the Ebola crisis in her country, and had expressed the need for elections for the vice chair in line with the rules of the Forum.