Retired president Uhuru Kenyatta flew to Ethiopia to join other African leaders and delegates from the African Union to review the country's peace and security progress.
In a statement issued through the Office of the 4th President of Kenya, on Sunday, April 23, the former president noted that he travelled as Kenya’s Peace Envoy to Ethiopia.
He also honoured an invitation by the Ethiopian government to attend a Peace Accords ceremony.
“Former Kenyan President His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, in his capacity as Kenya's Peace Envoy to Ethiopia, is in Addis Ababa at the invitation of the Ethiopian Government to attend a ceremony on Ethiopia Peace Accord,” the statement read in part.
Other African leaders joined Kenyatta, including former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and former South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo.
He also met the African Union(AU) Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat and the AU delegation and the AU commission chairperson and AU delegation at the AU headquarters.
"He joined the panel at a meeting with the AU Commission Chairperson H.E Moussa Faki Mahamat and the AU delegation at the AU Headquarters.
“The meeting focused on the Ethiopian Peace process and had an overview of the African continent's general peace and Security situation," added the statement.
Kenyatta led the AU and its High-Level Panel to facilitate peace talks which saw the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) sign a peace pact in November 2022.
Uhuru had hosted the warring sides of the Ethiopian conflict in Nairobi in the same month, to discuss the terms and conditions of the negotiations.
The Ethiopian government and rival Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the northern Tigray region, agreed on a second meeting in Nairobi to discuss the second phase of negotiations.
The deal did not spell out schedules and other items for the exercise that will be carried out in the Tigray region.
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