Africa: What Will Trump's Presidency Mean to Peace in Middle East?

18 February 2017
opinion

Last Sunday, I ventured into diplomacy. And I got quite some feedback, both positive and negative. The most emphatic one was the one that reminded me that "... a cardinal principle in international relations holds that no country acts in the interests of another..." I own up. That is not my field and I did point out as much in my submission last Sunday. I also, however, appreciate that the article provoked some thought.

At the risk of making more mistakes, I am inclined to remain in the same wave of foreign relations on account of a story I saw last Wednesday in one of the dailies. It talked about phone calls that President Donald Trump of the United States had made to President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria and President Jacob Zuma of South Africa. The real import of the story was that Kenya had not done its diplomacy right as a result of which President Uhuru Kenyatta was not called together with his two counterparts.

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