{"id":129054,"date":"2026-01-20T12:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/mudavadi-affirms-kenyas-readiness-to-host-africa-france-summit\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:02:53","slug":"mudavadi-affirms-kenyas-readiness-to-host-africa-france-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/mudavadi-affirms-kenyas-readiness-to-host-africa-france-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mudavadi affirms Kenya\u2019s readiness to host Africa-France Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 20 \u2013 NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 20 \u2013 Kenya is set to host the Africa \u2013 France Summit from May 11th to 12th next year, marking the first time a non-Francophone African nation will host the high-level gathering.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking after bilateral talks with his counterpart from France, Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, said the summit will position Kenya at the centre of Africa-Europe strategic engagement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the first non-Francophone African nation to host the Summit, Kenya is stepping forward to help shape a results-driven agenda that reflects Africa\u2019s ambitions and positions partnership as a catalyst for growth and opportunity,\u201d Mudavadi said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the summit will prioritise actionable outcomes in areas including financial reforms, green industrialisation, energy transition, digital innovation, sustainable agriculture, and resilient healthcare systems.<\/p>\n<p>Mudavadi, who also holds the Prime Cabinet Secretary portfolio reaffirmed Kenya\u2019s readiness to host the milestone event and said it signals growing political momentum for an inclusive, forward-looking Africa\u2013France relationship<\/p>\n<p>This summit will focus on solutions to challenges related to climate, environment and the reform of the international financial architecture, in favour of which the two heads of state are strongly mobilized.<\/p>\n<p>It will seek to foster a constructive form of multilateralism, in line with the Paris Pact for People and the Planet and the Nairobi Declaration which resulted from the Africa Climate Summit.<\/p>\n<p>This summit will bring together both political authorities from the African continent and representatives from civil society and the private sector.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 20 \u2013 NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 20 \u2013 Kenya is set to host the Africa \u2013 France Summit from May 11th to 12th next year, marking the first time a non-Francophone African nation will host the high-level gathering. Speaking after bilateral talks with his counterpart from France, Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}