Uhuru to meet Trump at White House today

[Sherlock]

President Uhuru Kenyatta and US President Donald Trump when they met in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on August 27, 2018. [File, Reuters] ​

President Uhuru Kenyatta will today meet US President Donald Trump hours after the latter was acquitted by the US Senate following a historic impeachment trial.

US Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said they are scheduled to meet at the White House in Washington, 528 days after their first meeting.

“Since President Uhuru’s August 2018 visit, when the two leaders established the United States-Kenya Bilateral Strategic Dialogue, we have expanded our partnership across many areas,” Grisham said in a statement.

She noted that Trump was looking forward to building on that momentum and that they will discuss new opportunities to advance cooperation and trade.

“Kenya continues to be a vital partner to the United States in Africa and beyond,” she said.

According to US news reports, Uhuru and Trump are preparing to announce negotiations on a free-trade agreement.

This will be America’s first such deal with a sub-Saharan nation.

At the close of the last meeting in 2018, Uhuru bagged investments worth Sh24 billion. Two US companies agreed to invest $238 million (Sh24 billion) worth of projects in Kenya targeting energy and food security.

Trump said the trade ties were getting "bigger" and some "excellent deals" for both countries were in the offing.

“We have a tremendous relationship with Kenya. We have terrorism, a lot of trade, getting bigger all the time we are working on a major infrastructure project, a massive roadway that will be record-setting. We are going to conclude a lot of things, we have the president's representative in the next room and we are going to be making some excellent deals for both countries,” he said.

Uhuru is in the US together with ODM leader Raila Odinga for a series of meetings. On Wednesday, they had a presentation on their handshake at an international luncheon at the US National Prayer Breakfast.

President Uhuru Kenyatta also met leaders of the Atlantic Council at a forum dubbed “The Future of The US-Kenya Strategic Partnership”.

The Atlantic Council is an American Atlanticist international affairs think-tank founded in 1961 as a non-partisan institution aimed at galvanizing the US leadership and engaging with the world for purposes of finding solutions to global challenges.

He asked American institutions to support indigenous African solutions fashioned to address governance challenges facing the continent.

According to his press team, Uhuru also cautioned the institutions against advancing democracy as a one-size-fits-all prescription saying the approach undermines the foundations upon which the concept is based.

He advised that African countries need to be given opportunities to come up with approaches that support democracy in line with their realities.

“It requires bringing more nuance to how we make judgements about politics, and the resulting interventions countries like the United States should undertake,” he said.

Source: The Standard

 

[Zeus1]

Safi sana.

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[simplemind]

Uhuru is also set to attend the US breakfast meeting on together with the ODM leader Raila Odinga.

Handshake solid as rock.

 

[Mbekenga]

Yaani kama JK. Si alikutana naye juzi tu sijui wapi DAVOS huko hata mwezi haujaisha?

 

[avogadro]

Yaani amejikalia zake huko marekani wewe unaona ufahari kwenda kujipeleka kwake?

Wazungu ni watu wabinafsi na wabaguzi wa hali ya juu na wanadharau

Wakija Afrika wanaongea tuu lugha zao na ukikutana naye anakuongelesha kizungu

Je ukienda kwao mitaani unamsemesha mtu kiswahili atakujibu?

 

[MKWEPA KODI]

Huku kwetu haruhusiwi kukanyaga ardhi ya marekani

 

[komora096]

Yaani amejikalia zake huko marekani wewe unaona ufahari kwenda kujipeleka kwake?

Wazungu ni watu wabinafsi na wabaguzi wa hali ya juu na wanadharau

Wakija Afrika wanaongea tuu lugha zao na ukikutana naye anakuongelesha kizungu

Je ukienda kwao mitaani unamsemesha mtu kiswahili atakujibu?

Utakuta walipowakataza ule mgao wa zile fedha za shule uliumia sana...
Sasa kw yale machungu leo ukaone heri uwatukane

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[avogadro]

Utakuta walipowakataza ule mgao wa zile fedha za shule uliumia sana...
Sasa kw yale machungu leo ukaone heri uwatukane

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Sisi hatuitaji free lunch ili tuuze uhuru wetu, sisi tunafanya kazi na inawezekana. Raisi wetu hajawahi kwenda nje kuombaomba yupo hapa hapa anapiga kazi na fedha za maendeleo zipo hapa hapa. Yaani wewe uache kufanya kazi utegemee kwenda kuomba?

 

[pingli-nywee]

Sisi hatuitaji free lunch ili tuuze uhuru wetu, sisi tunafanya kazi na inawezekana. Raisi wetu hajawahi kwenda nje kuombaomba yupo hapa hapa anapiga kazi na fedha za maendeleo zipo hapa hapa. Yaani wewe uache kufanya kazi utegemee kwenda kuomba?

Kwani rais Uhuru ameenda kuomba? Anafata fursa za kibiashara, alafu acha uongo Tz mnapokea misaada kwa wingi. Tena kupitia ufadhili wa kifedha kwenye sekta nyeti kama afya na elimu.

 

[MIXOLOGIST]

Hivi Raila ni VP?

 

[MK254]

Sisi hatuitaji free lunch ili tuuze uhuru wetu, sisi tunafanya kazi na inawezekana. Raisi wetu hajawahi kwenda nje kuombaomba yupo hapa hapa anapiga kazi na fedha za maendeleo zipo hapa hapa. Yaani wewe uache kufanya kazi utegemee kwenda kuomba?

Maskini jeuri, hivi unafahamu bajeti yenu ya taifa inategemea misaada wa hawa mabeberu, kwanza juzi Uswizi wamechomoa. Fuata hii link uone walitoa hadi mahari kwa ajili yenu
Hizi ndizo nchi ambazo zinaisaidia Tanzania kifedha

IZO NCHI ZINAZOISAIDIA TANZANIA KIFEDHA.

1. MAREKANI inatoa $600.80 M

2. UINGEREZA inatoa $214.79 M

3. SWEEDEN inatoa $137.59 M

4. CANADA inatoa $90.30 M

5. SWITZERLAND inatoa $32.70 M

6. DENMARK inatoa $ 53.85 M

7. FINLAND inatoa $17.06 M

8. IRELAND inatoa $22.71 M

9. POLAND inatoa $4.43 M

JUMLA YA MISAADA NI $1,174.23 B

 

[komora096]

Sisi hatuitaji free lunch ili tuuze uhuru wetu, sisi tunafanya kazi na inawezekana. Raisi wetu hajawahi kwenda nje kuombaomba yupo hapa hapa anapiga kazi na fedha za maendeleo zipo hapa hapa. Yaani wewe uache kufanya kazi utegemee kwenda kuomba?

Mbna basi mnataka kumuua zitto kabwe
"Eti sisi hatutati free lunch"hku spika imemuingia hadi tunduni mpka kuamua kuipeleka mada bungeni

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[ndughuri msuya]

Kwani rais Uhuru ameenda kuomba? Anafata fursa za kibiashara, alafu acha uongo Tz mnapokea misaada kwa wingi. Tena kupitia ufadhili wa kifedha kwenye sekta nyeti kama afya na elimu.

Nahisi Kenyatta haezi Kwenda USA bila bakuli lake ukizingatia mchina anaifilisi nchi kwa fedha za walipa kodi

 

[mng'ato]

Na Uhuru asisahau

dodge

 

[Sherlock]

Nahisi Kenyatta haezi Kwenda USA bila bakuli lake ukizingatia mchina anaifilisi nchi kwa fedha za walipa kodi

The other day USA donated $18M worth of military equipment to TPDF....but according to you Tanzania don't receive Aid.

 

[babayao255]

The other day USA donated $18M worth of military equipment to TPDF....but according to you Tanzania don't receive Aid.
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[simplemind]

Hivi Raila ni VP?

President Uhuru Kenyatta has revealed that his close advisers vehemently opposed a truce between him and ODM leader Raila Odinga after the disputed 2017 elections.
Uhuru, who made a speech at National Prayer Breakfast in the US, said some of his allies told him not to reach out to Raila at a time when the country was burning.
"I was surrounded by people who said we have power, why the hell do we have to talk to those guys,” he told the meeting.

The 68th US National Prayer Breakfast dubbed “Reconciliation, Faith and Peace Building” was hosted by the United States Congress and organised by the Fellowship Foundation in Washington DC.

It brought together more than 2,000 international guests, including political and business leaders, the US Congress, members of the diplomatic corps and clerics.
Uhuru said he had indicated to the people around him that he wanted to reach out to Raila not to discuss sharing of power, but to talk about the reasons why Kenyans fight after elections.
"It just happened that Raila was also thinking along the same lines, but the problem was that he was also surrounded by people who told him that he must grab power," he said.
Raila, who also addressed the gathering, said he was also hesitant to meet Uhuru because the people around him were not for it.
"After long discussions, he came driving himself and I also went driving myself," he stated.
Raila said it is during the second meeting that they decided to bring other people on board. "He came with one person and I went with one. We then told them the issues we had discussed and wanted to be put in writing," he explained.

They identified nine issues that they wanted to be tackled, among them ethnic antagonism, lack of a national ethos, divisive elections, corruption and shared prosperity.
The meeting between the two at Harambee House, Nairobi, on March 9, 2018, went down in history as a defining moment for the country after they shook hands on the steps of the building and restored peace across the country.
The Building Bridges Initiative was then formed to end years of hostility and the team went round collecting views on the nine issues identified as problems ailing the country.
Raila told the prayer breakfast meeting that he had been Uhuru’s rival in the election though they had worked together in the past.
"We have a history because we have worked together. When I was the Minister for Roads, he was the leader of Official Opposition. We again teamed up to defeat a constitution that Kenyans did not want. When we formed the grand coalition government, I was Prime Minister and he was Deputy Prime Minister," he said.
Raila said Kenya has had only two peaceful undisputed elections, one that ushered in Independence and the other in 2002. Uhuru noted that divisions have existed during elections and in some cases creating generation differences.
"Whenever divisions occurred, it is not those in leadership who suffered. It was the people who suffered, they shed blood and had their properties destroyed," he said.
The President added that it became clear that it was impossible to bring prosperity and long-term economic stability for the nation to grow and develop without peace.
"Everybody used to plan their businesses around the election cycle. Once elections came, everything stopped. Businesses stopped one year before an election and one year after an election. We worked for three years and took a two-year break as we wait for politicians to decide what to do."
He said it was for this reason that he felt it was necessary to reach out to Raila to come up with long-lasting solutions.

BBI inanguruma kweye kila kitongoji,kijiji na mji Kenya.
The handshake is as solid as a rock.

 

[Sherlock]

 

[Renegade]

Huku kwetu haruhusiwi kukanyaga ardhi ya marekani

Siku akiamua kwenda Wa Marekani wenyewe watajamba jamba wanamuhofia, wanajua ni jembe la ukweli.

 

[Teargass]

That's US alone, nyinyi mnareceive from 25 countries

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