Tough diplomatic math after Uhuru, Farmajo truce aborts

President Uhuru Kenyatta with his Egypt counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Djibouti’s Ismail Omar Guelleh on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. [Courtesy]

Last week, a beaming President Uhuru Kenyatta stood alongside Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as he held aloft the right hand of Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo.

Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma termed the meeting “a step in the right direction” towards the restoration of the relationship between Nairobi and Mogadishu.