Kenya reverses policy on communication with embassies

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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

Foreign diplomats in Kenya will no longer communicate directly with specific government departments, upending a policy employed earlier this year to ease bureaucracy.

Prime Cabinet Musalia Mudavadi on Monday told an audience of diplomats in Nairobi that his office remains the focal point of interactions between Kenya and the outside world, and that future communication will have to pass through the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs.