- EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell will become the first Western diplomat to formally congratulate Kenya’s President-elect William Ruto on Saturday (10 September) and is expected to call for relations between Brussels and Nairobi to be deepened in the coming years.
- One of the EU’s main diplomatic partners in Africa, particularly on anti-terrorism in the region, the EU launched a ‘strategic dialogue’ with Kenya in 2021.
- Relations between Brussels and the Kenyatta government went into a deep freeze after the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted Ruto and outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta on crimes against humanity charges related to the violence that followed the disputed 2007 elections.
Borrell to become first western leader to congratulate Kenyan president Ruto
