Kenya: Ruto Wraps Up Nordic Visits With Call for Greater Diaspora Investment

Kenya: Ruto Wraps Up Nordic Visits With Call for Greater Diaspora Investment

Press Release - President William Ruto concluded his visit to three European nations by encouraging the Kenyan diaspora to support and invest in the transformative programmes the government is implementing back home.

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Ruto Wraps Up Nordic Visits with Call for Greater Diaspora Investment

NAIROBI, Kenya Jun 12 – President William Ruto concluded his visit to three European nations by encouraging the Kenyan diaspora to support and invest in the transformative programmes the government is implementing back home. During a town hall meeting in Helsinki, Finland, with Kenyans living and working across the Nordic region, the President explained that significant progress is being made back home despite perceptions created by some media r…

From Dodoma to Helsinki: How Ruto is rewriting Kenya’s place in the world

In just six weeks President William Ruto has switched on a robust mode for Kenya’s foreign policy, touching down for State Visits in Dar es Salaam, Astana, Pretoria and Helsinki and returning with more than 17 bilateral agreements and a louder voice in the push to reform global institutions. The tour, which ended with a State Visit to Finland on Thursday, has been Ruto’s most rigorous stretch of diplomacy since taking office. One of the consiste…