Retired President Uhuru Kenyatta has travelled to Ethiopia to attend a Peace Accords ceremony and join other African leaders and delegates from the African Union to review the country’s peace and security progress. Kenyatta travelled to Ethiopia as Kenya’s Peace Envoy and also honoured an invitation by the Ethiopian government. Other African leaders joined Kenyatta, including former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and former South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo. The former president met with the African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat and the AU delegation at the AU headquarters.
Kenyatta played a leading role in facilitating peace talks which resulted in the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signing a peace pact in November 2022. In the same month, he hosted the warring sides of the Ethiopian conflict in Nairobi to discuss the terms and conditions of the negotiations. The Ethiopian government and rival TPLF agreed on a second meeting in Nairobi to discuss the second phase of negotiations. However, the deal did not spell out schedules and other items for the exercise that will be carried out in the Tigray region.
In a statement issued through the Office of the 4th President of Kenya, Kenyatta noted that the meeting focused on the Ethiopian peace process and had an overview of the African continent’s general peace and security situation. The former president believes in peaceful negotiations and has been vocal about the need for African countries to come together to discuss peace and security issues.
