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Why Kenya did not vote when the whole world defied Trump at the UN

Fear of losing billions of shillings in US funding made Kenya pull out of a vote against President Donald Trump’s Jerusalem policy at the United Nations.

The vote against President Trump’s move to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel won the day, after a majority of UN member states defied threats of losing US financial aid.

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