Kenyan Opposition Leader Slams President for Going to Africa Summit in China

One of Kenyan President William Ruto’s most outspoken rivals, Raila Odinga, head of the opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), blasted the president for traveling to China to attend last week’s Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit that took place in Beijing.

“I say, why should African leaders go to China? Chinese should be the ones coming to Africa, so these are some of the things that we want to reverse,” Odinga said at a rally in Kenya on Saturday.

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