Big win for Kenya on UN Security Council seat

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President Uhuru Kenyatta and Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma, Photo courtesy
Kenya has been nominated as the African candidate for UN Security Council seat after defeating Djibouti in second round of voting at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa.
A committee of envoys representing member states of the AU headquarters, officially known as the Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) made the decision in a secret ballot.
Kenya will now contest at the United Nations for a one-year non-permanent seat in elections slated for next year in June.

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