Presidents Uhuru Kenyatta (Kenya), Paul Kagame (Rwanda) and Felix Tshisekedi (Democratic Republic of Congo) after DRC signed the treaty integrating Kinshasa into the East Africa trade bloc, at State House in Nairobi on April 8, 2022. PHOTO | TONY KARUMBA | AFP
With the clock ticking towards President Uhuru Kenyatta’s exit as the East African Community Summit chairperson this May, opinion is divided on his legacy.
The region views him as the president who expanded the EAC membership by overseeing the admission of the Democratic Republic of Congo, oversaw the region’s recovery from effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and fixed the Kenya-Tanzania trade disputes.
