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Mudavadi said the media reports that the country seems to conflict with other countries in the East African region are misleading.
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"President is working to bring peace in those nations because the wars could find their way into Kenya," Mudavadi said.
Prime Cabinet Secretary and Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has refuted claims that Kenya is at loggerheads with its neighbours. https://rb.gy/ghcwrx
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Prime Cabinet Secretary and Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has refuted claims that Kenya is at loggerheads with its neighbours.
The Prime CS spoke on Sunday during a church service in Teso South, Busia county.
Mudavadi said the media reports that the country seems to conflict with other countries in the East African region are misleading.
"Our brothers in media, please know Kenya is not at war with any of its neighbours. The President is on the front line of fostering peace in the region," he said.
Mudavadi acknowledged that there are countries in East Africa that are having wars and political instability.
"President is working to bring peace in those nations because the wars could find their way into Kenya," Mudavadi said.
"We were somewhere and we saw reports of conflict here and there. Please media there is no problem with our neighbours so far as Kenya is concerned."
He said if there are any issues, they are usually dealt with diplomatically.
Recently, what was emerging as a diplomatic war between Kenya and Tanzania raised speculations after the neighbouring country announced plans to ban Kenya Airways from Tanzania.
The move was fueled by Kenya's alleged refusal to grant Air Tanzania all-cargo flight operations.
Mudavadi, however, managed the situation after he reached out to Tanzania's Foreign Affairs minister January Makamba for diplomatic engagements. The plan to ban Kenya Airways was shelved.
Mudavadi said collaborative efforts in achieving key resolutions to emerging diplomatic spats should be encouraged within the East African Community region.
He said the EAC mission aims at widening and deepening economic, political, social and cultural integration to improve the quality of life of the people through increased competitiveness, value-added production, trade and investments.
“We are like conjoined twins and when one of us is hurt, we both feel the pain. We must be cognizant of the fact that within the contemporary globalized environment, there are emerging challenges some of which have deep diplomatic ramifications. But how we address the situation at hand and work collectively towards getting common solutions to the problems is what will move the integration forward and help our people,” Makamba explained.
Kenya and Tanzania also agreed to give their respective support towards efforts to restore peace and normalcy in the conflict-hit Eastern DRC, a region that has continuously witnessed fragile calm and threats to humanity.
The Conflict in Somalia emerging from the territorial stand-off with Somaliland is also an issue that the Ministers said they will be seeking more interventions to see to it that peace is restored in the Horn of Africa.
The EAC is a regional intergovernmental organisation of eight Partner States namely Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, and Tanzania and headquartered in Arusha, Tanzania.