What is straining Kenya's ties with United Kingdom?

There is no secret anymore. The Kenya-UK ties are under considerable strain. On Wednesday, Foreign Affairs minister Sam Ongeri revealed that two years ago, President Kibaki declined an invitation to visit Britain by former PM Gordon Brown, which would also have seen him meet Queen Elizabeth. Since Kibaki took over the reigns, there have been signs that ties between the two governments have not been very convivial.

But State House dropped a bombshell recently when while denying a media report that the President had become unreachable by European diplomats, revealed that Kibaki was more interested in working with African countries and the East rather than with the traditional West. This policy, it was explained, was guided by the "changing geo-political dynamics".