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Kenya back at UN shipping agency as Russia voted out
Cabinet Secretary for Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs Salim Mvurya during the press conference in Nairobi on April 12, 2023. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO | NMG
Kenya has been re-elected to represent eastern Africa and the Great Lakes region on the United Nations shipping agency’s governing council in an election that saw Russia kicked out.
Kenya is back into the Council under Category (c) for the biennium 2024 to 2025, and it will represent Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, the Horn of Africa region and the island states of the western Indian Ocean.