If Uhuru is not careful he will be the first Kenyan President not to be accorded an official invitation by Tanzania

If Uhuru is not careful he will be the first Kenyan President not to be accorded an official invitation by Tanzania

MK254 said:
Imagine mpaka sasa hakuna kiongozi yeyote wa maana amewatembelea rasmi, aibu hata mazishi ya Mkapa of all the people hamna kiongozi yeyote wa maana alikwenda, sio hata kutoka SADC wala Afrika yote wala majuu.....hawa wameboronga sana kidiplomasia hadi wametengwa na dunia, wameachiwa watembelewe na akina Burundi tu.

Nafuu enzi za Kikwete walipata ujio hata wa POTUS, yaani wamerudi nyuma kwa mbali sana hawa. Nahisi hata ndani ya CCM wanalijua hili na ndio maana hata wastaafu hawaonekani kuchangamkia huu uchaguzi, Kikwete huwa namskia mara moja moja tu sijui wapi huko mkoa wa Kusini, ila nikikumbuka 2015 alikua kote kote.
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Kenyan delegation plane to Mkapa funeral forced to turn midair
By JUDAH BEN-HUR | July 28th 2020 at 03:05:06 GMT +0300
An aircraft carrying President Uhuru Kenyatta's envoy to the late President Benjamin Mkapa’s funeral was forced to turn back midair on Tuesday due to bad weather.

The news was broken by Tanzania Foreign affairs and East African Cooperation Minister Prof Palamagamba Kabudi. Prof Kabudi also confirmed that the aircraft safely landed in Nairobi.

Professor Kabudi spoke during the national farewell at Uhuru Stadium in Dar es Saalam where he confirmed that the delegation was expected to represent President Uhuru.

“We were expected to have with us the special envoy representing president Uhuru Kenyatta, Senator Samuel Losuron Poghisio, Majority Leader of the Kenyan Senate, but we have received information that the plane was forced to turn mid-air in Monduli,” said Professor Kabudi during the service.

Professor Kabudi’s remarks brush off any assumptions of a squabble between the two countries which have in previous months had border conflicts over Covid-19 testing regulation which locked out many Tanzanian drivers.

But an investigation by Standard Digital revealed that the circumstances that may have led to the aircraft turning back midair could have been minimal. For instance, according to weather surveillance website Sat24.com, Monduli in Tanzania is 22.1 C with the wind running at 21.8 km/h (4 bft, 11.8 knts). The area is also fairly cloudy and sunny.

Generally, according to Skyscanner.com threats forcing planes to shelve landing include thunderstorms, extremely heavy rain that contains strong wind shear, large hail, severe turbulence or wind in excess of 54.7 km/h-64.3km/h are generally prohibitive of take-off and landing.

Such weather elements were not present in Monduli at the time thus challenging the explanation as to why the plane turned back mid-air.

The late President Mkapa who died on Thursday last week at age 81, ruled Tanzania from 1995 to 2005. The East African leader will be remembered greatly by Kenyans for his role in striking a peace deal between Raila Odinga and retired President Mwai Kibaki during the 2007 post-election crisis.

Kenyan delegation plane to Mkapa funeral forced to turn midair
 
Tony254 said:
We don't want any invitation from your poor country!!
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See who calls the shot in the region! Ur media has come to know!


Tanzania's wolf warrior diplomacy continues to win against Kenya
Tanzania continues to restrict free movement of labour across its borders
In Summary
• In the recent case, Tanzania on Wednesday lifted a ban on Kenyan airlines, including national career Kenya Airways.
• This was a day after Kenya included it in the list whose national need not quarantine once they arrive in the country.

Presidents John Magufuli of Tanzania and Uhuru Kenyatta address a news conference during his official visit to Nairobi yesterday /REUTERS\THOMAS MUKOYA
Presidents John Magufuli of Tanzania and Uhuru Kenyatta address a news conference during his official visit to Nairobi yesterday /REUTERS\THOMAS MUKOYA

Tanzania’s confrontational diplomacy seems to always win every time there is a diplomatic spat with Kenya.

In the latest incident, Tanzania on Wednesday lifted a ban on Kenyan airlines, including national career Kenya Airways, a day after Kenya included it in the list of countries whose nationals need not quarantine once they arrive in the country.

The interpretation was that it was a win for Tanzania, despite other states being added to the revised list.

‘Confrontational diplomacy’ can be drawn from "wolf warrior diplomacy", which is popularly used by the Chinese. It is characterised by Chinese diplomats' use of confrontational rhetoric. It was also common between Malaysia and Singapore until Prime Minister Najib Razak put an end to it in 2018.

Tanzania banned Kenya Airways, Fly 540, Air Kenya Express and Safarilink Aviation in August after being excluded from the list of countries whose nationals would be allowed entry under revised coronavirus restrictions.

“Diplomacy is governed by a principle known as reciprocity, and Kenya has excluded Tanzania from countries whose flights can access its airspace. At this time, they [Kenyans] can stop coming. It is not a tiff but a diplomatic principle,” Tanzania spokesperson Hassan Abbasi said on August 11.

Kenyan officials, including Foreign Affairs CAS Ababu Namwamba, denied any diplomatic spat.

Earlier in May, Tanzania barred Kenyan truck drivers from entering the country. This followed President Uhuru Kenyatta’s closure of Kenya’s border with Tanzania and Somalia to curb the spread of coronavirus. Somalia did not retaliate.

Uhuru had to call his Tanzanian counterpart, John Magufuli, to ‘resolve’ the brewing diplomatic row.

At stake was trade between the two states. According to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, Kenyan exports to Tanzania grew by 13 per cent to Sh33.9 billion in 2019.

Last year, Uhuru sent a delegation led by CS Monica Juma and comprised of DCI George Kinoti, DPP Noordin Haji and Attorney General Paul Kihara to return 35kg of gold seized by police to Tanzania.

That was not enough. Uhuru called Magufuli during the handover and said, “My brother, I say we continue working together and Kenya and Tanzania has no borders as we agreed."

Previously, there was a spat over tourism revolving around the 1985 bilateral agreement.

The agreement does not allow tour vans to access parks and airports in either of the states. They should hand over and/ or pick visitors at border points. Kenya has however been allowing in Tanzanian vans, unlike Dar.

This caused an uproar in January 2015 by Kenyan operators who protested against “invasion” by Tanzanians, while they were not allowed to cross over to Tanzania.

Former EAC and Tourism CS Phyllis Kandie then accused Tanzania of dragging its feet in resolving the dispute long after the EAC states developed a single tourism visa for the region.

Tanzania escalated the trade spat in February when it imposed fresh quality verification standards for Kenyan products.

Tanzania continues to restrict free movement of labour across its borders – failing to issue work permits – despite it ratifying the common market protocol.

In 2018, Dar es Salaam imposed a 25 per cent import duty on Kenyan confectionery, claiming Kenya had used zero-rated industrial sugar imports to produce them

Kenya seems to be taking all this it in its stride.

Tanzania's wolf warrior diplomacy continues to win against Kenya
 
MK254 said:
Hebu ajitokeze Mtanzania anieleze nini umuhimu wa rais Uhuru kuja Tanzania haswa kipindi hiki cha corona, hivi mnajua hata huyo Museveni alivumilia sana mzee wa watu maskini libarakoa limeziba hadi macho, yeye na wapambe na walinzi wake, japo baadaye mlimlazimisha kulitoa, najua kule aliko kwa sasa anasali kwa kufunga akisubiri zipite siku 14 bila kukohoa.

Halafu hii awamu ya tano mnakwenda kuvunja rekodi ya kutotembelewa na kiongozi yeyote wa maana, mumezoea hao akina Burundi, Uganda.

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Vipi hivi mwana Corona zile siku 14 hazijapita bado?
 
Word has it Uhuru was not extended invitation reason being the serves for Kigogo et al were hosted in Kenya.
 
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