The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is both friend and foe, depending on who you ask. In Nairobi, President William Ruto called them “friends of Kenya” after they gave him an aircraft to use for a State Visit to the US.
State House Spokesman Hussein Mohamed later said the government saved money after the UAE gesture, allowing Kenya to pay just Ksh10 million ($76,923) instead of the Ks200 million ($1.54 million) it would normally cost.
