It's no secret, region has cast its lot with Kenya

Mombasa is as grand a place to be as any visitor, tour guide, guide book or local will attest. Mombasa Raha, we often nostalgically say of the beach tourist resort city that has a history ancient enough to fill a library and a port that is the gateway to the East and Central Africa heartland. Enough said.

Being Kenya’s second largest city, Mombasa has been the destination of choice for conferences, teachers’ conventions, graduands, local and international tourists and parliamentary committees. But lately, the city has been host to a different kind of visitor: legislators from South Sudan, three Presidents, and now, ministers from the East African Community (EAC) partner states.