President William Ruto has joined other leaders in Brazzaville for a climate summit.
Ruto left the country on Friday evening to attend the summit of the Three Basins Climate Change Conference in Congo.
The summit aims to implement the first global coalition to restore 350 million hectares of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
The three-day summit is the first of its kind, bringing together the world's three major tropical forest basins: the Amazon, Congo, and Borneo-Mekong Forest Basins.
The summit should "formalize genuine south-south cooperation in support of biodiversity and the climate," said Collinet Makosso, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo
This will be President's Ruto 39th trip since he assumed office last year in September.
This week, the Head of State was in Saudi Arabia for the 7th edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII) summit.
On Thursday, Ruto pledged to cut Sh500 million in his travel budget to support learners who are abled differently.
Speaking during the flagging-off of motor vehicles for education officers in Kasarani, Nairobi, yesterday, the President said the funds will be used to build a manufacturing plant for assistive devices for learners with disabilities.
“I will knock off a few things in my budget again including my travel allowances so that I can find Sh500 million. The money will be used to start a factory that will manufacture local devices that will assist learners with special needs,” he said.
“Nitakata pesa ya travel ndio tufanye hiyo construction. (I will cut money for travels so that we will do the construction),” he added.
From the cuts in his travels, and contributions by the Ministry of Education, and the National and County Governments, Ruto believes it will be possible to build a factory and produce assistive devices for learners with disabilities.
Speaking in Taita Taveta on Friday, the President annoucned that he has slashed the executive's travel budget by Sh11 billion.
" I saw that the media saying I reduced the budget by Sh500 million. No, it is not 500 million but I have reduced by Sh11 billion for those going on those trips," Ruto said.
The president explained that some trips are not beneficial to Kenyans.
He, however, said the ones that will be financed are those that will bring money to Kenyans.
