Kenya uses summit to lobby for high profile UN Security Council seat

President Uhuru Kenyatta is handed the chairmanship of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group by Papua New Guinea deputy Prime Minister Steven Davis James in Nairobi, yesterday. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

Kenya has once again pitched for its candidature for a non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council at a high-level international conference in Nairobi yesterday.

President Uhuru Kenyatta, who took over from Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape as chairman of African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), rallied member states to support the country’s bid against Djibouti as he gave a status report on the elaborate campaign mounted.