Kenya’s Mudavadi talks trade with Blinken, with eye on Haiti

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 Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi delivers a speech at the state house in Nairobi, Kenya on October 31, 2023. PHOTO | POOL via AFP

Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi held talks with US Secretary of State Tony Blinken in Washington DC, US on Thursday, securing support for the controversial Security Mission to Haiti, even though the agenda was also about trade.   

Mudavadi’s meeting with Blinken comes a few days after Kenya and the US completed another round of negotiations to advance the Strategic Trade and Investment Partnership (Stip) in Nairobi.